Laszlo Nagy wrote: > Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> to send a possibly long email I have seen a solution >> which does os.popen to an external sendmail program and >> then writes the message into that pipe. >> >> I wonder if it possible to use smtplib.SMTP.sendmail >> but this requires building the complete body as one long >> string in memory before calling this. >> >> Is there an alternative solution, e.g. where >> smtplib.SMTP.sendmail calls a generator. >> > using socket.connect, and feed the message body into it in smaller chunks. > > Of course, you need to create the message body first, but it was not > your question - I suppose you already have the message stored on disk? >
Thanks, it's a mail filter, the message is read in smaller chunks from sys.stdin . Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
