Need Help with NTSendMail

Hello,
I am converting my UNIX-based Perl scripts to Windows-compatible ones that are to work in my Windows XP box.
I have Apache 1.3, and ActivePerl installed in my XP box, and I am having problems sending emails from my test scripts.

I have also installed Advanced SMTP server (from http://www.softstack.com), and it seems to work fine (I can send emails from Outlook Express through this program without going to the ISP's mail server). However, when I test the sending email script in the following Perl script. It hangs.

Here's the part of the script that is supposed to send an email.

#!E:\Perl\bin\perl.exe

use NTsendmail;
$ENV{"NTsendmail"} = "localhost";
$ENV{"NTsendmail_debug"}=1;
my $mail = new NTsendmail;
my $from = "me\@someone.com";
my $to = "me\@someone.com";
my $subject = "Message from NTsendmail";
my $message = "Email Testing";
$mail->send($from, $to, $subject, $message);
exit 0;


As you can notice, I am using NTsendmail module (from www.ntsendmail.com) and I am following their instructions exactly, or at least I think so I get a couple errors generated by NTsendmail.pm if I put a couple intentional errors, so it's not the NTSendmail module that is causing the problem.

Can anybody help me with this thing? or offer some insights?
I would greatly appreciate any of you guys input !

Why don't you use something like Net::SMTP, MIME::Lite or Mail::Sender?
These all are portable, tested, documented and widely used.

Jenda