It looks like you are missing the leading quotation mark
in your system call. Running perl -wc on your code will
help you find small errors like this.
Update: I ran perl -wc on this code and it didn't
spit out any errors, so it wouldn't have helped you in this
case. It's still a good idea to use it though :)
I would try and shy away from writing the mail to a temp
file though; it will be a headache for you if the directory
or file permissions ever get changed. I would probably do
something like:
open (MAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -oi -em")
|| die "Couldn't open sendmail: $!";
print MAIL <<EOM;
To: me\@mycompany.com
From: myscript\@mycompany.com
Subject: Some subject
$reportdata
EOM
close (MAIL);
