I had a similar problem and corrected by contructing a proper message format using MIME::Lite. 

    $msg = MIME::Lite->new(
                 From     =>$from,
                 To       =>$to,
                 Cc       =>'',
                 Subject  =>$subject,
                 Data     => $body
         );


   $msg->send();

#########################
# if you don't have sendmail on your system

# Change how messages are sent

    ### Do something like this in your 'main':
# MIME::Lite->send('smtp', "smtp.myisp.net", Timeout=>60);

  ### Now this will do the right thing:
# $msg->send;## will now use Net::SMTP as shown above

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In reply to Re: MIME::Parser by trs80
in thread MIME::Parser and mail from MS Outlook by neilwatson

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