From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 1 01:26:37 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F24016A4CE for ; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 01:26:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from aiolos.otenet.gr (aiolos.otenet.gr [195.170.0.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D82843D1D for ; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 01:26:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-a142.otenet.gr [212.205.215.142]) j311PnSS028884; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 04:25:50 +0300 Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j311QXsM057204; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 04:26:33 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j311QWnl057203; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 04:26:32 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 04:26:32 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Gert Cuykens Message-ID: <20050401012632.GB57109@gothmog.gr> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 01:26:37 -0000 On 2005-04-01 02:47, Gert Cuykens wrote: > i want to send a movie to a friend ? How do you do that with sendmail > ? You don't. Email messages are not a good medium for sending huge files. Many mail servers limit the size of the messages they accept to something like 1 MB, so you'd have to split the movie in an extremely inconvenient, huge number of short parts. There are other ways to do file transfers. FTP is, in fact, called ``File Transfer Protocol''. You could always fire up an ftpd in read-only, anonymous mode and invite your friend to download the file from you. > I know i know i read the man but its like this > [------------------------------------] long IMHO, the Handbook chapter on electronic email is more useful for Sendmail beginners, but I doubt people read it these days; which is rather unfortunate, given the amount of effort freebsd-doc people have put into writing it. - Giorgos