What you want is to execute Outlook, not?

Well, you have a lot of ways to do that on Perl, but I preferrer a portable way, that works on UNIX too:

my $outlookmail = "c:/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office/Outlook.ex
+e" ;
open (CMDLOG,"| $outlookmail") ;
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Your path for Outlook has some spaces, probably you need to declare de variable in this way:

my $outlookmail = '"c:/Program Files/Microsoft Office/Office/Outlook.e
+xe"' ;
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Graciliano M. P.
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