attachements with mail command

Is there any way to send attachments via "mail" command from the terminal?
im writing a simple bash script to send my backups to my email address

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after some research i got a possible solution:

uuencode pic.jpg pic.jpg | mail abc@xyz.com < body.txt

but now i dont have "uuencode" command in my FC3
where could i get it? im using Fedora Core 3