[ale] Script to send email with attachments

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net (Thompson Freeman)]

I went and stuck my foot in "it" again, and volunteered to  
be computer geeky so I can learn something new. Which would  
be fine except I'm not quite finding the clues (yet) in a  
web search.

The task is to send a number (close to 80) jpg pictures to  
a yahoo mail account by email. My usual email clients are  
pine & balsa running on an older Fedora Core install.  
Sending onesy twosy attachments with either client is a  
nobrain task, but I would rather script a task with fourty  
times the attachments. Obviously, I'm not aware of a way to  
script either client.

I've got notes hiding somewhere in my mess which should  
give a python solution, but at the moment I'd rather  
something in bash.

Any ideas? Help?

Thanks in advance