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Re: How to use ssmtp ?


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 tino dot lange at isg dot de 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 tino dot lange at isg dot de < 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
>
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