Dnia 29.04.2025 o godz. 15:50:11 Rooma Zoom Zoom via Postfix-users pisze: > > I'm looking for a way to transfer images and videos from my mobile > devices to an OS X computer on my local network by emailing that > information locally, where I would like to have a Postfix server > running on OS X which would enable not needing that information to > be sent through an email server on the internet. In particular I > want to be able to transfer large video files without any upper size > limit. > > Would I be able to access Postfix with my email client softwares > locally on the network just like accessing any external email > server, including to send large attachments?
No, email in general (not only Postfix) is not, and never was, a proper tool to transfer large files. And on local network it's definitely an "overkill". For file transfer, you should use tools dedicated to file transfer. It's just obvious. Right tools for the right job. Myself, I use just a standard SSH server on my Linux computer (you can easily install one on OS X as well), and on a mobile device I use a SCP/SFTP client to transfer files to/from the computer (there are many such clients available, the application I use is called Admin Hands, but you may choose another one). SCP/SFTP should definitely allow you to easily transfer files of any size (and without the overhead related to base64 encoding, which increases size of your file sent by email by at least 33%). Of course, there are various mobile-specific apps for file transfer, but for me SSH/SCP/SFTP has the advantage that it's standard, and it works the same way regardless of what device/OS you use it on. I use the same method for transferring files from/to another computers in my network to my "main" computer, and I don't have to use different tools on different devices (and learn them all). -- Regards, Jaroslaw Rafa r...@rafa.eu.org -- "In a million years, when kids go to school, they're gonna know: once there was a Hushpuppy, and she lived with her daddy in the Bathtub." _______________________________________________ Postfix-users mailing list -- postfix-users@postfix.org To unsubscribe send an email to postfix-users-le...@postfix.org
