I have almost no experience with Perl but I am looking to create an AIM bot that will simply sit online all the time and email incoming messages to an email address at my website (hosted on TCH of course ). Once it has been delivered to the email address easymoblog will convert it into a blog entry (I already have this installed and working). I have tried to find an existing solution but the only ones i can find require an aim client to be running on my machine (unacceptable because my primary machine is a laptop and i travel alot) and other services that charge too much money for one this simple feature.
I have found a Perl library called Net::AIM that seems to be pretty easy to use and there's even a walkthrough from O'Reilly here that explains how to create a bot that is more complex than I actually require.
The documentation for Net::AIM sais that it requires the IO::* perl module which is not installed according to my cpanel. Are these things that I can install myself?
Also, I assume it is not difficult at all to have a perl script send an email because this is such a common need. Am I correct in assuming this?
