Savitha, You need to use uuencode like this: uuencode {infile name} {tempfilename} | mailx -s "mail subject" {mail recipient} I use this all the time. Good Luck! Tom ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of savitha malve Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 7:48 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Sending Mails Dear Oracle Free List Users, This is not a database related question. But will be greatful if any one could respond to this. We plan to send mail attachements using unix sendmail/mail/mailx command. I have tried using below command, I do receive an e-mail but with no attachment. /usr/bin/uuencode /export/home/corpadmin/tbs_frag_percent.lst /export/home/corpadmin/tbs_frag_percent.lst > /export/home/corpadmin/attachment.txt | mail mbsm@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:savithamalve@xxxxxxxxx> Will be helpful if anyone can guide me to the correct syntax. Thanks in advance Savitha __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com