Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3E71DF33.3F46BFF@swipnet.se> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:54:59 +0100 From: a12 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tino Lange , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How to use ssmtp ? References: <3E709153.ADF922AB@swipnet.se> <20030313143354.GC15611@pentek.com> <20030313144102.GK27047@cygbert.vinschen.de> <3E719C4E.17017359@swipnet.se> <20030314091435.GG2032@nbof> <3E71AA90.BFE9BAAC@swipnet.se> <3E71C604.5020407@isg.de> <20030314131050.GA1692@tishler.net> <3E71D81E.7000109@isg.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Tino, Google reveals several mailfile. Which one do you use ? Marek Tino Lange wrote: > 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.lange@isg.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.lange@isg.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/ -- 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/