Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <3E71D81E.7000109@isg.de> Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 14:24:46 +0100 From: Tino Lange Organization: IS Innovative Software AG User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: de, en-us, en, fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Tishler Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: How to use ssmtp ? References: <3E709153.ADF922AB@swipnet.se> <20030313143354.GC15611@pentek.com> <20030313144102.GK27047@cygbert.vinschen.de> <3E719C4E.17017359@swipnet.se> <20030314091435.GG2032@nbof> <3E71AA90.BFE9BAAC@swipnet.se> <3E71C604.5020407@isg.de> <20030314131050.GA1692@tishler.net> In-Reply-To: <20030314131050.GA1692@tishler.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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.lange@isg.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.lange@isg.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 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/