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Jason Tishler wrote: >>Forget about ssmtp! Really. >>As you just realize it's not easy to use and if you want to send files >>it's not useable at all, since it has a limit of mails <= 4k size. > The above size limit is not quite true. From the ssmtp man page, we > have the following: > > Header size is limited to 4K and a max of 100 addresses. > > Note that I have used ssmtp for years, sent thousands of messages > through it, and *never* bumped up against the above limitations. Jason, Hmmm, yes, your right. But it's not possible to send mails like this: > $ mailfile -adr tino DOT lange AT isg DOT de curl-7.9.8.tar.gz > sendmail: Header too large Max is 4000 characters The program 'mailfile' wraps up the mail including attachment and calls ssmtp via ssmtp.exe -i tino DOT lange AT isg DOT de < MAILTEXT That's why it's quite unusable for that kind of sending mails. sendmail or even a small python script using smtplib has no problem sending such mails. Cheers, Tino -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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