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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 PROTECTED] < 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/
