I don't know why the subject wouldn't be set, but there are problems with your snippet as shown:

Single quotes will not interpolate. I suggest you split up the line as:

my $cmd = 'mail -s "Test" testmail@server.com, < DailyReport_$d.txt';
print "Running [$cmd]\n";
system($cmd) == 0
    or warn "Couldn't run [$cmd]: $! / $?";

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That way, you will see that $d does not interpolate in your command line.

You should swap the quoting style and always quote all the components:

my $cmd = "mail -s 'Test' 'testmail\@server.com' < 'DailyReport_$d.txt
+'";

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In reply to Re^5: Email Question by Corion
in thread Email Question by btobin0

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