Hello Perl Monks

I have multiple files I want to send to multiple emails. One file goes to one email recipient. I have StrawberryPerl 5.20.1.1 (64bit) on Windows 7 (64 bit). I have Mail::Sender installed. I copied the following code from, actually, I've looked at so many sites I forget where I copied it from. SMTP, To and From are real and will be used for my testing purposes.

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
use Mail::Sender;

  $sender = {};
  if ($sender->MailMsg({
   smtp => 'ECMAIL7.internal.lacoe.edu',
   from => 'mansell_steven@lacoe.edu',
   to =>'sgmansell@gmail.com',
   subject => 'this is a test',
   msg => "Hi Steve.\nHow are you?"
 }) < 0) {
  print "if must be less than 0\n";
  die "$Mail::Sender::Error\n";
 }
 print "Mail sent OK."

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I get this error

Can't call method "MailMsg" on unblessed reference at email_code.pl line 5.

I am not familiar with methods so I'm not sure what to do at this point.

1. Is there a way to send email without using methods? or do I need to learn methods?

2. Is there a way to test if I'm able to send an email through the Exchange server?

Thanks,

Steve

In reply to email through Exchange server using StrawberryPerl by sgmansell

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