I didn't test it but I would think that the following should work provided that you have indeed declared all of the smtp variables.

$mail_method = 1;
$mail_program = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t";  # overriding default "/usr/l
+ib/sendmail -t -oi -oem"
$email_from = 'test@domain.com';
$email_to = 'neil@domain.com';
$email_subject = 'foo';
$email_text = 'bar';

$msg = MIME::Lite->new( 
    From    =>'$email_from',
    To      =>'$email_to',
    Subject =>'$email_subject',
    Type    =>'multipart/mixed',
    Data    =>'$email_text'
);

if ($mail_method == 1) {
  MIME::Lite->send('sendmail', $mail_program) or die "Sendmail failed"
+;
} elsif ($mail_method == 2) {
  MIME::Lite->send('smtp', $smtp_address, Timeout=>$smtp_timeout) or d
+ie "SMTP send failed";
} else {
  warn "Unknown mail_method $mail_method!  Trying default.\n";
  MIME::Lite->send() or die "Default send method (Sendmail) failed";
}

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added: -t option. Thanks Tomte!

In reply to Re: MIME::Lite by Mr. Muskrat
in thread MIME::Lite by skirrow

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