Re: How to use ssmtp ?

[Tino Lange <tino dot lange at isg dot de>]

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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