Faced with a similar situation, I've used Email::Send::Gmail with success. You will need a gmail account.

Thank you! That did the job and is very easy to use. Do you know if it is possible to attach files using this module?

See Email::MIME and http://www.mail-archive.com/search?q=attachment&l=pep%40perl.org

Unrelated to your question but when I run programs that take days I also mail myself when the program dies.

Additionally I try to save as much program state information as possible before the actual 'die' - so if the program died after two days I dont have to wait another two days to see if I have fixed the bug.

Use MIME::Lite, configure it to speak SMTP with the mailserver that your usual mail program uses.

Alexander

Hi,

I agree with afoken. MIME::Lite is an excellent module. If you are on Windows, you can try DWIM Perl, because it already has MIME::Lite included.

To find out the mail server, please follow this link - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998082%28v=exchg.65%29.aspx

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