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Re: How to use ssmtp ?
Tino,
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 02:24:46PM +0100, Tino Lange wrote:
> 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
It *is* possible with the following:
$ mutt -a curl-7.9.8.tar.gz tino dot lange at isg dot de </dev/null
> 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.
See above.
> sendmail or even a small python script using smtplib has no problem
> sending such mails.
See above.
Jason
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