Sending attachments through BSD mail

The “uuencode” program can be used to send attachments through the classic BSD mail program.

Just try:

shell> uuencode FILE ATTACHMENT-NAME | mail -s SUBJECT RECIPIENT

Or, if you want to compress a file and send it, just try:

shell> gzip FILE | uuencode ATTACHMENT-NAME | mail -s SUBJECT RECIPIENT

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