I'm not sure what the "system call" has do do with your issue (you don't show any sample code), but maybe the following will give you a different tool to play with:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Test::MockObject;

BEGIN {
    my $mockMIMELite = Test::MockObject->new();
    my %params = (To => 'parp', Subject => 'Beep', From => 'Bop');
    $mockMIMELite->fake_module(
        'MIME::Lite',
        new  => sub {ML_new($mockMIMELite, @_)},
        send => sub { },
        );
    $mockMIMELite->mock(send   => \&ML_send);
    $mockMIMELite->mock(attach => \&ML_attach);
}


use MIME::Parser;

my $msg = MIME::Lite->new(
                To      => 'wibble@wobble',
                From    => 'Bogus email source',
                Subject => 'Email test',
                Data    => 'Email body',
                );
$msg->send();


sub ML_new {
    my ($mock, $class, %params) = @_;

    $mock->{newParams} = \%params;
    return $mock;
}


sub ML_send {
    my ($self)     = @_;
    my %fields     = %{$self->{newParams}};
    my @headerKeys = (
        (grep {exists $fields{$_}} qw(To From Cc Subject)),
        (grep {!/^(data|subject|cc|to|from)$/i} sort keys %fields)
        );

    print "--------------8<------------------\n";
    print "$_: $self->{newParams}{$_}\n"
        for grep {defined $self->{newParams}{$_}} @headerKeys;
    print "Data:\n$self->{newParams}{Data}\n";
    print "-------------->8------------------\n\n";

    return 1;
}


sub ML_attach {
    my ($self, %params) = @_;
    my %fields = %{$self->{newParams}};

    print ".............-8<..................\n";
    print "Type:        $params{Type}\n";
    print "Path:        $params{Path}\n";
    print "Filename:    $params{Filename}\n";
    print "Disposition: $params{Disposition}\n";
    print ".............-8<..................\n";

    return 1;
}
[download]

Prints:

--------------8<------------------
To: wibble@wobble
From: Bogus email source
Subject: Email test
Data:
Email body
-------------->8------------------
[download]

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