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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] < 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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