Sending attachment using sendmail command

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Send_Mail()
{
C_Date=`date +"%m/%d/%Y"` 
#Subject="MMDB Load Job Status"
for i in `cat $Metafile`
do
  if [ `echo $i | cut -d":" -f1` == 'Email' ]
  then 
    email_address=`echo $i | cut -d":" -f2`
    /usr/lib/sendmail "$email_address" < $Email_File
  fi
done
}

this is the send mail command i am using .please let me know how to attach a excel sheet using the sendmail command .
As i am unavble to do it and had tried all the possible options that i can get by googling

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Welcome to the forum Alok.
Since you are new to the forum, please make a note of the following

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