Fellow Monks, I am trying to send an email with an attachment. The attachment is an ExcelML (XML) file: 
 
## snippet-begin ##
my $msg = MIME::Lite->new(
    'From'    => $param{'from'},
    'To'      => $param{'email'},
    'Subject' => 'Your Report - '.$param{'startdate'}.' to '.$param{'e
+nddate'},
    'Type'    => 'mulitpart/mixed',
);

$msg->attach(
    'Type' => 'TEXT',
    'Data' =>
        'Here is the Report requested for dates '.$param{'startdate'}.
+' to '.$param{'enddate'},
);

$msg->attach(
    'Type'        => $mime_type,
    'Disposition' => 'attachment',
    'Encoding'    => 'quoted-printable',
    'Filename'    => 'provider_report'.$param{'format'},
    'Data'        => $attachment,
);

$msg->send;
## snippet-end ##

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$attachment is the XML data, $mime_type has been tried as 'application/vnd.ms-excel', 'text/xml', and 'text/plain', I have also tried binary, base64, and 8bit encoding in addition to quoted-printable.

I get the error 'no data in this part', when running my script. According to the module, that error is sent when the data cannot be encoded.

I have also tried sending the data as a filehandle, and have tried sending plain old XML

Anyone else seen/overcome this error?

Don
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