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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx < /dev/null I.e. will create an empty mail with your yum.conf as an attachment... Peter.