I second the notion. This module rocks (although getting it to handle MIME encoding is a bit of a hassle, but there is an example to help you get started). Mime::Tools handles this aspect well enough, but wants to deal with addressing the message as well, so it gets a bit conflictual between the two.

I had a vague idea of making Mail::Sendmail Mime::Tools-aware, but the former is written pretty crappily and it exhausted my tuit supply.

That said, I still reach for this module first when I need to sling email around, and, despite what the name would have you believe, it does not require sendmail(1)