If everything you need is to send a simple message you may use: use Mail::Sender; ref ($sender = new Mail::Sender({ from => 'somebody@somewhere.com', smtp => 'ms.chipnet.cz'}) ) or die "$Mail::Sender::Error\n"; (ref ($sender->MailMsg({ to => 'Jenda@Krynicky.czX', subject => 'this is a test', msg => "Hi Johnie.\nHow are you?"}) ) and print "Mail sent OK." ) or die "$Mail::Sender::Error\n"; __END__