Ok, sending a binary file as an attachment via a command-line mailer command: supermonkey $>uuencode picture.jpg picture.jpg | elm -s "Picture of my monkey" someguy@someplace.com or supermonkey $>mutt -a picture.jpg someguy@someplace.com or To send it as a mime attachment to a *cough* *cough* Winblows user: supermonkey $>mpack -s "Picture of my monkey" -d description.txt picture.jpg someguy@someplace.com You can make description.txt with your editor d'choice of course. Make sense? These are a couple of examples, I have a ton more in my head... now if I can just find my #$#$@ car keys.... ~ Gary ~ On Tue, 2001-09-04 at 16:29, Brian Cluff wrote: > > can you not just do it the old redirected way? > > > > mail -s "my log file" my@email.address < /var/log/messages > > Thats works great for text files, but if you are wanting to mail someone an > image if you just redirect it to mail, you get a message full of spooge, and > you also can't be sure that it would even end up in your mailbox the same > due to some servers striping 8 bit characters down to 7 bit.