[techtalk] Sending pictures from cron

[Rik Hemsley]

#if GeekGrrl
> I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to email a webcam snapshot via
> a crontab entry. I have the entry done and it works, but 'mail
> seikenbe at swbell.net < webcam.jpg' results that account receiving a garbled
> mess instead of an image. (Yes, I know the mess -is- the image).
> 
> Is there any way to send this as an attachment so it does not get so
> garbled? Can pine work in a one-line command without invoking the whole
> program?

uuencode webcam.jpg | mail seikenbe at swbell.net

Rik