I've writen a shell script with the command line mail program to tell me what's going on but I can't seem to get the logfile to dump into the body of the email.

I was doing it and now it won't do it any more, the logfile just becomes the generic "attachment" which is not the desired effects, especially because of the incompatibility of unix/windows ascii newlines.

The command is

mail myemailaddress -s "Subjectline" < var/log/logfile

I thought it might have to do with the length, but I was sending longer logs in the body before.

Any ideas on piping the logfile into the actual body of the mail instead?

I don't understand "the logfile just becomes the generic attachment"

Independently of that , mail needs the email adress at the last argument :

mail -s "subject" mymailaddress < /var/log/logfile

Should send you a mail with in the body the content of /var/log/logfile

You can also play with mutt if you want to create an attachment.

I mean it becomes an attachment without a name, with standard unix ascii so it's inconvienient in M$ desktops

it's ok, I've come up with a solution, stripping out returns before piping to mail sorted it and nows dumps it into the body of the message.

Also, you can put the -s "Subject" and user the other way round...