Creating a File Attachment on the fly

[Paul Howarth]

Gregory P. Ennis wrote:
> Sorry if this question is a bit off list,
> 
> I need to be able to e-mail a fax *.tif file for the purpose of
> confirmation and receipt.  It is easy to attach one of these files using
> Evolution, Outlook etc, but I need to be able to create a mail envelop
> with something like perl and attach the tif file. It looks like the mail
> agents convert the file to a BASE 64 and then attach the file.
> 
> Can anyone give me a starting place by way of reading to be able to do
> this.

# yum install perl-MIME-tools
$ man MIME::Tools

Paul.