Subject: Re: How to use ssmtp ?
From: Jason Tishler <[email-masked]>
To: Tino Lange <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:28:16 -0500

Tino,

On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 02:24:46PM +0100, Tino Lange wrote:
> 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

It *is* possible with the following:

    $ mutt -a curl-7.9.8.tar.gz [email-masked] </dev/null

> 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.

See above.

> sendmail or even a small python script using smtplib has no problem 
> sending such mails.

See above.

Jason

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