Andrew McGlashan writes:
> Hi,
>
> lee wrote:
>> Andrew McGlashan writes:
>>> lee wrote:
That you don't want the problem to exist doesn't help. Look at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=+635184 and tell me if
you know a better solution.
>>> 100M logfiles via email
On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 13:45 +0200, lee wrote:
> "John A. Sullivan III" writes:
>
> > If it is of any help, we are just about finished with an enhancement to
> > the mailscanner and zendto projects where mailscanner can be optionally
> > configured to detect emails larger than a given size, send
lee wrote:
"John A. Sullivan III" writes:
If it is of any help, we are just about finished with an enhancement to
the mailscanner and zendto projects where mailscanner can be optionally
configured to detect emails larger than a given size, send the
attachments to ZendTo (a dropbox like server)
Hi,
lee wrote:
Andrew McGlashan writes:
lee wrote:
That you don't want the problem to exist doesn't help. Look at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=+635184 and tell me if
you know a better solution.
100M logfiles via email is way too unreasonable.
Do you have any arguments
Camaleón writes:
> On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 20:44:34 +0200, lee wrote:
>
>> What do you do on the sending side? Send the parts as attachments as if
>> they were complete files rather than parts?
>
> The sender has to do nothing special, just attach all of the splitted
> files and send them as an att
Andrew McGlashan writes:
> Camaleón wrote:
>> That's the only way I can send files (programs, manuals, FAQs...) to
>> a chap that lives in Cuba and has only access to his e-mail
>> account. No Internet for browsing, no Internet for downloading big
>> files from a provided link. No FTP service for
Andrew McGlashan writes:
> Hi,
>
> lee wrote:
>> That you don't want the problem to exist doesn't help. Look at
>> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=+635184 and tell me if
>> you know a better solution.
>
> 100M logfiles via email is way too unreasonable.
Do you have any argument
Ivan Shmakov writes:
> It's not unusual to compress the files before the Base64
> encoding is applied. And indeed, the compression ratio may
> vary.
And when the files are compressed, they can be smaller than they are
uncompressed --- so it's amazing that base64 doesn't involv
"John A. Sullivan III" writes:
> If it is of any help, we are just about finished with an enhancement to
> the mailscanner and zendto projects where mailscanner can be optionally
> configured to detect emails larger than a given size, send the
> attachments to ZendTo (a dropbox like server) and r
On Sun, 2011-07-24 at 15:28 +0200, lee wrote:
> Andrew McGlashan writes:
> What is more efficient when people have to spend the extra time to
> figure out how to up- and download and how to solve security issues
> involved with transferring the files via http or ftp? Are you going to
> explain
> Erwan David writes:
> On 24/07/11 22:23, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
[…]
>> Huh? Base64 has overhead of only 33.(3)%?
> Add another 3,33% for CRLF each 80 encoded characters (2 caharacters
> each 60 bytes)
Indeed.
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On 24/07/11 22:23, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
>> Andrew McGlashan writes:
>> Ivan Shmakov wrote:
>
> >> Huh? Base64 has overhead of only 33.(3)%?
Add another 3,33% for CRLF each 80 encoded characters (2 caharacters
each 60 bytes)
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> Andrew McGlashan writes:
> Ivan Shmakov wrote:
>> Huh? Base64 has overhead of only 33.(3)%?
> Won't that vary by file?
I guess it won't. Base64 sends each 6-bit of data as an ASCII
character, which is (usually) represented by an octet. This
gives exactly 4
Ivan Shmakov wrote:
Huh? Base64 has overhead of only 33.(3)%?
Won't that vary by file? It's never going to be the same for every file.
It's still alot of extra overhead, not just the extra data.
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Camaleón wrote:
That's the only way I can send files (programs, manuals, FAQs...) to a
chap that lives in Cuba and has only access to his e-mail account. No
Internet for browsing, no Internet for downloading big files from a
provided link. No FTP service for upload or download nothing. They're
Hi,
lee wrote:
That you don't want the problem to exist doesn't help. Look at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=+635184 and tell me if
you know a better solution.
100M logfiles via email is way too unreasonable.
Good luck to you, hope you get videos of hundreds of MB and you h
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011 15:23:51 +1000, Andrew McGlashan wrote:
> lee wrote:
>> what's there in Debian to mail files in parts with each part limited to
>> a given maximum size? I need a commandline tool to do this ---
>> metamail doesn't seem to exist anymore.
>
> This problem _should_ _not_ exist.
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 20:44:34 +0200, lee wrote:
> Camaleón writes:
>
>> On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:18:35 +0200, lee wrote:
>>
>>> Camaleón writes:
>>>
>>> Yeah, that's what I thought of doing if there isn't a better option.
>>> How do you handle the mime stuff in your script so that the recipient
>
Andrew McGlashan writes:
> Hi,
>
> lee wrote:
>> Andrew McGlashan writes:
>> What's the point of having good internet connections when you can't use
>> them? Making your files publicly available by uploading them somewhere
>> or by setting up your own web server may not be what you want.
>
> Wh
Andrew McGlashan writes:
> Hi,
>
> lee wrote:
>> what's there in Debian to mail files in parts with each part limited to
>> a given maximum size? I need a commandline tool to do this --- metamail
>> doesn't seem to exist anymore.
>
> This problem _should_ _not_ exist. How horrible to need to pi
> Andrew McGlashan writes:
[…]
> The other thing that many people don't seem to understand, is that
> sending a large binary file as an attachment requires the attachment
> to be encoded back to printable characters -- this can increase the
> payload of an email by 50%.
Huh? Ba
Hi,
lee wrote:
what's there in Debian to mail files in parts with each part limited to
a given maximum size? I need a commandline tool to do this --- metamail
doesn't seem to exist anymore.
This problem _should_ _not_ exist. How horrible to need to piece
together parts again later. Think a
Hi,
lee wrote:
Andrew McGlashan writes:
What's the point of having good internet connections when you can't use
them? Making your files publicly available by uploading them somewhere
or by setting up your own web server may not be what you want.
What, so you can abuse it? And all the server
Andrew McGlashan writes:
> Hi,
>
> lee wrote:
>> what's there in Debian to mail files in parts with each part limited to
>> a given maximum size? I need a commandline tool to do this --- metamail
>> doesn't seem to exist anymore.
>
> It would be far better to host files somewhere and send a link
Camaleón writes:
> On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:18:35 +0200, lee wrote:
>
>> Camaleón writes:
>>
>> Yeah, that's what I thought of doing if there isn't a better option. How
>> do you handle the mime stuff in your script so that the recipient can
>> extract the file from the many messages easily?
>
>
Hi,
lee wrote:
what's there in Debian to mail files in parts with each part limited to
a given maximum size? I need a commandline tool to do this --- metamail
doesn't seem to exist anymore.
It would be far better to host files somewhere and send a link or links
to the hosted files.
Today w
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 17:18:35 +0200, lee wrote:
> Camaleón writes:
>
>> On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:09:20 +0200, lee wrote:
>>
>>> what's there in Debian to mail files in parts with each part limited
>>> to a given maximum size? I need a commandline tool to do this ---
>>> metamail doesn't seem to ex
Camaleón writes:
> On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:09:20 +0200, lee wrote:
>
>> what's there in Debian to mail files in parts with each part limited to
>> a given maximum size? I need a commandline tool to do this --- metamail
>> doesn't seem to exist anymore.
>
> I use a custom script for that task that
On Sat, 23 Jul 2011 15:09:20 +0200, lee wrote:
> what's there in Debian to mail files in parts with each part limited to
> a given maximum size? I need a commandline tool to do this --- metamail
> doesn't seem to exist anymore.
I use a custom script for that task that basically uses "split" (to
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