mail $smtp->mail(address[, options]) $smtp->send(address) send_or_mail(address) send_and_mail(address) Takes the sender's address and sends the appropriate command (MAIL, SEND, SOML, or SAML) to the server to initiate the message-sending process. mail can take some ESMTP options, passed as key/value pairs. See the Net::SMTP documentation for the details.