Sending an email as an attachment from the command line

[Tom Brown]

>
> i have done this before - alas i have lost the script but i remember i 
> used uuencode - i will try and find the script but until then look 
> into uuencode
>
try this

/usr/bin/uuencode files1.tar.gz files.tar.gz | mail -s "some subject" 
mail at domain.com

thanks