Subject: Re: How to use ssmtp ?
From: Tino Lange <[email-masked]>
To: Jason Tishler <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:24:46 +0100

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 [email-masked] 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 [email-masked] < 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

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