All,

I've found some threads on how to attach a binary file to a email, but I'm having some problems trying to figure out how to attach a xls (Excel) file. Here is the snippet of code that I'm struggling with: 

open (XLS, $file) or die "Can't open file: $file -- $!\n";
undef $/;
$message1 = (<XLS>);

%emailhash = (
        'to'           => "toname\@company.com",
        'from'         => "fromname\@company.com",
        'subject'      => $subject2,
        # 'message'      => $message1,
        'disposition'  => $file
             );
sendmail(%emailhash);

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if I "unpound" the 'message' key, I see the Excel output in the email itself, but it's not showing up as attached.

Any help would be appreciated.

In reply to Using Sendmail and attaching a xls (Excel) file by TASdvlper

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