You could use the 'mail' program... % cat | mail -s "Subject" Not sure how you'd go about getting only the latest data file with regular ftp. It'd work nicely with Python's FTP module, but that's a whole different language to use :) It'd be sweet to use these files along with MRTG btw... On Sun, 13 Oct 2002 kd7eth@kd7eth.net wrote: > I also haven't figured out how to e-mail the retrieved files > automatically. I tried using sendmail and pine. Pine would work, > except it needs me to send the "send" (ctrl-x) command.