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On 2005-04-02, Colin J. Raven scribbled these
curious markings:
> I'm not stuck with mail, I use it with some shell scripts....but yeah, I 
> guess I could use mutt....there's an idea I hadn't previously 
> considered.

If you're doing scripting, why not use an actual scripting language, and
some tools actually designed to do what you're trying to do? For
example, Perl has MIME::Lite, which does exactly what you want -- and
not much else. I've used it to automate sending email based on the
output of "make test".

Best Regards,
Christopher Nehren
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