[ale] using uuencode to create a viewable email attachment

[Geoffrey]

Brian W. Neu wrote:
> so I tried
> 
> uuencode tester.sh tester.sh |mail -s "mail test" my at email.com
>             &
> uuencode -m tester.sh tester.sh |mail -s "mail base64 test" my at email.com

You need to tell mail it's an attachment:

mail -s "subject" -a attachedfile my at email.com

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Until later, Geoffrey

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