Hi everyone,

I'm trying to create a cgi that takes information from a user input form and sends the information to an email account. There are apparently quite a few different modules out there to do this but I've opted for Mail::Sender. This module requires an SMTP server address and I'm not entirely sure what to use. Is this something I can set-up on my computer??

Here's the sample code: 
#!/perl/bin/perl -wT

use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Carp qw(warningsToBrowser fatalsToBrowser);
use Mail::Sender;

#use strict;

print header;
print start_html( "Results" );
     
$sender = new Mail::Sender {
    smtp => 'www.2wire.com',
    from => 'heygohey@hotmail.com',
    on_errors => undef,
}
or die "Can't create the Mail::Sender object: $Mail::Sender::Error\n";

$sender->Open({
    to => 'heygohey@hotmail.com',
    subject => 'Sorry, I\'ll come later.'
})
or die "Can't open the message: $sender->{'error_msg'}\n";

$sender->SendLineEnc("I'm sorry, but thanks to the lusers, I'll come a
+t 10pm at best.");
$sender->SendLineEnc("\nHi, Jenda");
$sender->Close()
or die "Failed to send the message: $sender->{'error_msg'}\n";

print end_html;

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Other notes that might be helpful:
- I'm running an Apache server.
- I do not have a domain name.
- Windows.

In reply to How do I connect to an SMTP server? by neutron

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