Creating a File Attachment on the fly

[Peter Arremann]

On Monday 04 July 2005 10:43, 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.
That's where command line mail clients come in :-) 

mutt -a /etc/yum.conf -s "my subject is longer than yours" bill at microsoft.com 
< /dev/null

I.e. will create an empty mail with your yum.conf as an attachment...

Peter.