Hi, I'm at least getting an email, however the attachment isn't being attached. Originally this email was working fine with sendmail. I'm on a windows server that doesn't have sendmail apparantely so I'm using SMTP to send the email. This is what arrives in my email:

1001du.txt
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="boundary-144416012012"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Date: 144416012012
From: sking@mortgage-pros.com
To: admin@mortgagerefinancingpros.com
Subject: New loan request in database (extra fields)


This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--boundary-144416012012
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Length: 271
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
Content-Type: text/plain



Dear Member,

Please find attached to this email message a loan application file fro
+m a recent loan applicant.  Be sure to save this DU 3.2 file to your 
+hard drive and import the data into your loan processing program.

Regards,

Site Administration
Mortgage-pros.com

--boundary-144416012012
Content-Disposition: inline; filename="1001du.txt"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Type: application/zip; name="1001du.txt"

MTAwMWR1LnR4dA==

--boundary-144416012012--
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Here's the code:

sub sendfile {
my $email = $_[0];
my $from = $_[1];
my $subject = $_[2];
my $message = $_[3];
my $file = $_[4];
($date,$boundary) = &boundary; 
#print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
#print $_[4];
#exit;
my $file_cont=encode_base64($file);
#my $file_cont=encode_base64($line);
$length=length($message);
$send = qq~Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="$boundary"
MIME-Version: 1.0
Date: $date
From: $from
To: $email
Subject: $subject

This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--$boundary
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Length: $length
Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
Content-Type: text/plain

$message
--$boundary
Content-Disposition: inline; filename="$file"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Type: application/zip; name="$file"

$file_cont
--$boundary--
~;


$smtp = Net::SMTP->new($mailhost);

    $smtp->mail($_[1]);
    $smtp->to($_[0]);

    $smtp->data();
    $smtp->datasend("To: $_[0]\n");
    $smtp->datasend("From: $_[1]\n");
    $smtp->datasend("Subject: $_[2]\n\n");
    $smtp->datasend("\n");
    #$smtp->datasend("$_[3]\n");
    $smtp->datasend("$_[4]\n");
    $smtp->datasend("$send\n");
    $smtp->dataend();

    $smtp->quit;

#    open(MAIL,"|$mailprog -t");
#    print MAIL $send;
#    close(MAIL);
}
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