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I just made task scheduler run a batch file to start the perl scripts and called it a day.

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Re^2: run a Perl program in Windows Task Scheduler
by Anonymous Monk on Jul 26, 2013 at 17:03 UTC
    I found that: c:\perl64\bin\perl.exe <program>.pl works OK. Now I have another problem...looks like I can't send email from the program run by the scheduler. thanks for your suggestion
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      Hi there,
      I have had the opportunity of having to do this recently. Does the script automatically send email without the windows task scheduler? If we see your code we might be able to help more. I have used MIME::Entity and MIME::Lite to send emails via perl script 
       my $mail = MIME::Lite->new(
 From=> 'me@me.com,
 To=> 'someone@cool.com',
 Subject=> "Hello email ",
 Type=>'multipart/mixed'
 );
 $mail->attach(
 Type => 'application/x-tar',
 Encoding => 'base64',
 Path => 'C:\path\to\file.tar',
 Filename => "file.tar"
 );
MIME::Lite->send('smtp','server.smtp.com',Debug=>0);
$mail->send;

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        Hi, I'm having a tremendous amount of difficulty trying to get Task Scheduler to trigger my Perl script using Mail::Sender to send email with text attachments. It works WITHOUT Task Scheduler (simple cmd command of "perl mytest.pl). Frankly, Windows SUCK!
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