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 Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:28:16 -0500 From: Jason Tishler Subject: Re: How to use ssmtp ? In-reply-to: <3E71D81E.7000109@isg.de> To: Tino Lange Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-followup-to: Tino Lange , cygwin@cygwin.com Message-id: <20030314142815.GC1692@tishler.net> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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> <3E71D81E.7000109@isg.de> 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.lange@isg.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.lange@isg.de 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. See above. > sendmail or even a small python script using smtplib has no problem > sending such mails. See above. Jason -- PGP/GPG Key: http://www.tishler.net/jason/pubkey.asc or key servers Fingerprint: 7A73 1405 7F2B E669 C19D 8784 1AFD E4CC ECF4 8EF6 -- 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/