The following mini-patch against 0.4.1 allows sending multi-line text by reading the message from stdin.
--- /usr/bin/mumbles-send 2007-08-30 03:44:21.000000000 +0200
+++ /home/jh/bin/mumbles-send 2010-01-02 12:00:23.000000000 +0100
@@ -116,6 +116,8 @@
if len(args) > 1:
content = args[1]
+ if content == "-":
+ content = sys.stdin.read()
if send_local:
dbus_loop =...
2010-01-02 12:30:43 UTC in mumbles