When using the LIST form of system() the first argument is the program to run, the rest of the arguments are the parameters for the program. I can almost guarantee you don't have a program called /usr/bin/mailx uuencode $zipfile $zipfile -r -s on your system. You probably have /usr/bin/mailx however. The other parts (uuencode $zipfile $zipfile -r -s) need to be passed as parameters to mailx. 
my @emailcmd = ('/usr/bin/mailx', 'uuencode', $zipfile, $zipfile, '-r'
+, '-s');
#and later

my @args = (@emailcmd, $subject, $recipient);
system(@args) == 0
 or die "system @args failed: $?";

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This is of course assuming that the command /usr/bin/mailx uuencode file.zip file.zip -r -s Subject Recipient indeed works on the command line.

In reply to Re^5: Trouble emailing zip file by Paladin
in thread Trouble emailing zip file by TonyNY

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