Mail No attachment, body only - mailx -m -s "Some Subject" somone@somewhere.com < file_for_email_body Mail with attachement, no body - ux2dos /path_to/some_file | uuencode some_file.txt | mailx -m -s "MAIL FROM Someone" someone@somewhere.com Mail with attachment and body - ux2dos /path_to/some_file | uuencode some_file.txt | mailx -m -s "MAIL FROM Someone" someone@somewhere.com < file_for_email_body Mail with carbon and blind carbon - mailx -m -s "Some Subject" somone@somewhere.com < file_for_email_body (the file_for_email_body should look like this - ) ~c someone_to_cc@somewhere.com ~b someone_to_bc@somewhere.com The remainder of this file is the text body of the email.