How to email a Movie Clip in Flash

Hi everyone.
I am creating a painting / drawing application in flash.
I want to add a functionality, which allows the user to send his/her painting to his/her email address.
How can this be done?
Please note that the painting / drawing would be a movie clip
Help on an urgent basis would be greatly appreciated
Thanks

Hi,
I did something similar for AS2:basically there was a "designer" swf where one could interact to create a design,
and a "viewing" swf that contained all the bits and pieces used (e.g. a blank t-shirt).
The designer swf would send data (placement of objects, coordinates of strokes) to the server, and the server would amend the blank viewer swf by compiling the data object and adding it as another code block. The code of the viewing swf would handle constructing the desired image, by placing objects, adding strokes, etc.
With the simple structure of AS2 code, php could do that.
I sort of believe that something similar could be done for AS3 if the server is able to run java (the flex sdk programs). Addition: PHP by itself should be able to replace an embedded text file ... such as an xml description of the artwork

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