diff --git a/FAQ b/FAQ
index babab36..a32925b 100644
--- a/FAQ
+++ b/FAQ
@@ -102,3 +102,11 @@
    See the SECURITY section of metche(8).
    You might also be interested in Schleuder (http://schleuder.nadir.org/).
 
+10. Why am I receiving metche reports as attachments with
+    Content-Type: application/octet-stream?
+
+    You are probably using heirloom-mailx as /usr/bin/mail. That program's
+    charset conversion features depend on the current locale. You may
+    either switch to bsd-mailx or set the LOCALE variable in metche.conf to
+    something better suited than "C" to the charset(s) used in the Changelog
+    and other monitored files.
diff --git a/metche b/metche
index 1bfccde..617ef32 100755
--- a/metche
+++ b/metche
@@ -71,15 +71,34 @@
     fi
 }
 
+add_header() {
+    local subject="$1"
+    echo "Subject: $subject"
+    echo "To: $EMAIL_ADDRESS"
+    echo
+    cat
+}
+
+_mail() {
+    local subject="$1"
+    if which mutt > /dev/null ; then
+        LC_ALL="$LOCALE" mutt -s "$subject" "$EMAIL_ADDRESS"
+    elif which mail > /dev/null ; then
+        LC_ALL="$LOCALE" mail -s "$subject" "$EMAIL_ADDRESS"
+    elif [ -x /usr/sbin/sendmail ]; then
+        LC_ALL="$LOCALE" add_header "$subject"|/usr/sbin/sendmail "$EMAIL_ADDRESS"
+    fi
+}
+
 email() {
     debug "* email $@ to $EMAIL_ADDRESS"
     local subject="`current_system` - $_MAIL_SUBJECT : $1"
     if [ $ENCRYPT_EMAIL = "yes" ]; then
         LC_ALL="$LOCALE" gpg --batch --armor --encrypt \
                              --recipient "$EMAIL_ADDRESS" |
-            LC_ALL="$LOCALE" mutt -s "$subject" "$EMAIL_ADDRESS"
+            LC_ALL="$LOCALE" _mail "$subject"
     else
-        LC_ALL="$LOCALE" mutt -s "$subject" "$EMAIL_ADDRESS"
+        LC_ALL="$LOCALE" _mail "$subject"
     fi
 }