Hello monks, I am having a problem attaching an excel file with MIME::Lite. In outlook it says the file is corrupted and opens blank even though it is 328B. Here is my section of code that I attempted to perform this with: 
my $msg = MIME::Lite->new(
        From    => 'me@me.com',
        To      => 'me@me.com',
        #Cc      => 'some@other.com, some@more.com',
        Subject => 'Report',
        Type    => 'multipart/mixed'
    );


$msg->attach(
        Type     =>'TEXT',
        Data     =>"Here is the Report"
    );



$msg->attach(
               Type => 'application/vnd.ms-excel',
               Encoding => 'base64',
               Path => "/report.xls",
               Filename => 'report.xls'
 );

$msg->send;

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Is it something with the encoding that I am not getting?

In reply to mime::lite and attaching files by PerlSufi

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