Hi Monks,

I am trying to send an Excel file via perl. With following code, I can send the file, but "my_message" is never get printed and the Excel file' cannot be opened. (It gives some bogus cannot access/read-only file error messages) 

use MIME::Entity;
use Mail::Send;

@my_message = qw(Hello world Look at my attachment);
$msg = MIME::Entity->build(From    => 'me@myhost.com',
               Type     => "multipart/mixed",
               To      => 'user@company.com',
               Subject => "Hello,  ! ",
               Data    => \@my_message);

$msg->attach(Path     => 'account.xls',
         Encoding    => '-SUGGEST',
         Disposition =>  "attachment",
         '-X-Mailer' =>  undef,
);

open SENDMAIL, "|/usr/lib/sendmail -t" or die $!;
$msg->print(\*SENDMAIL);
close SENDMAIL;

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