Hello Perlmonks, I'm having trouble sending an excel file as an attachment. The email is sent successfully and I receive the file, but when I open the file it is blank. I know that the excel file is valid because I have manually ftp'd it to my machine. Here is my subroutine: 
sub SendEmail {
    my $file = shift;
    my $mailTo = shift;
    
    my $top = MIME::Entity->build(Type    => "multipart/mixed",
                                  To      => $mailTo,
                                  Subject => "test");

    $top->attach(Path => $file,
                 Type => 'application/vnd.ms-excel',
                 Disposition => 'attachment') or die "Problem attachin
+g $file: $!";

    $top->smtpsend;
}

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Am I missing something? Thanks for your help.

Edit: Allow me to give a better description of the file that I receive. It comes to my email as an attachment and opens with Excel. The file itself has one sheet in the workbook, but no data.

If I manually ftp the file to my machine it opens with the data that I expect to be in it. The file is not that big...about 2 MB or so.

In reply to Sending excel file as an attachment by MoFiddy

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