Kris Kennaway schrieb:
I would like to MIME encode a message from a large file without first loading the file into memory. Assume the file has been pre-encoded on disk (actually I am using encode_7or8bit, so the encoding should be null). Is there a way to construct the flattened MIME message such that data is streamed from the file as needed instead of being resident in memory? Do I have to subclass the MIMEBase class myself?
I don't know what you are after here - but I *do* know that anything above 10MB or so is most probably not transferable using mail, as MTAs impose limits on message-sizes. Or in other words: usually, whatever you want to encode should fit in memory as the network is limiting you.
If you insist, I guess the stdlib isn't much of help - try implementing a SMTP-server using twisted. But this is just a guess.
Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
