perl Email::MIME not working intermittent - perl

Question

the following code sometimes work, and sometimes do not. It is runnign on linux, where postfix is installed, i disabled it and stopped the service. does this need postfix to run?
when i run this test code in terminal i get no error and no email.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Data::Dumper;
use Email::MIME;
use Email::Sender::Simple qw(sendmail);
my $sub='test';
my $exitCode=0;
my $emailTo='raxxxx#xxxx.com';
my $bcc='';
if ($exitCode == 0){$exitCode = '';}
my #mesgBody = ("test\n","email\n");
my $message = Email::MIME->create(
header_str => [
From => '"Rajeev" <'.$emailTo.'>',
To => $emailTo,
Subject => $sub,
],
attributes => {
'X-Priority' => 1,
'X-MSMail-Priority' => 'High',
encoding => 'quoted-printable',
charset => 'ISO-8859-1',
},
body_str => "#mesgBody"."\n".$exitCode, #old body_str => $sub."\n".$mesg."\n".$exitCode,
);
#sendmail($message);
if ($bcc eq ''){
my $result=sendmail(
$message,
{
from => '"Rajeev" <'.$emailTo.'>',
to => [$emailTo],
}
);
print "result=".Dumper($result)."\n";
} else {
sendmail(
$message,
{
from => '"Rajeev" <'.$emailTo.'>',
to => [$emailTo, $bcc],
}
);
}
output:->
result=$VAR1 = bless( {}, 'Email::Sender::Success' );
so if this is success, why am i not getting any email?
I also see nothing in system logs.
thank you.

Answer 1

# service postfix start
solved the problem.