From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 1 21:42:41 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 C891C16A4D4 for ; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 21:42:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.198]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6265F43D46 for ; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 21:42:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gert.cuykens@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id a41so763849rng for ; Fri, 01 Apr 2005 13:42:40 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=K+29IvSSIujOrtbBDGtMOqFNA3N8I+NP7YB1fraJcKwkplyPKlHj6sk6OEQhb5XrQ4v6NSRecYTaaYQ+K+JdLzFj3F+7an6rfHBXUL+p6dly42Bvi9OSGX8mlJut5vZ5+tkXLYf8yFq1b3NAZCmBj3Q9ZpxCNCxkM0JdLU68Tcs= Received: by 10.39.1.30 with SMTP id d30mr2292994rni; Fri, 01 Apr 2005 13:42:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.74.23 with HTTP; Fri, 1 Apr 2005 13:42:40 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 23:42:40 +0200 From: Gert Cuykens To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Erik_N=F8rgaard?= In-Reply-To: <424CFF52.10901@locolomo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable References: <200503312003.10392.wizlayer@gmail.com> <424CFF52.10901@locolomo.org> cc: wizlayer@gmail.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sendmail X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Gert Cuykens List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 21:42:41 -0000 On Apr 1, 2005 9:59 AM, Erik N=F8rgaard wrote: > Gert Cuykens wrote: > >>Just how big is this movie and are you sure his ISP's/private > >>mail server would even accept it? > >> > > Its 5.5mb and my gmail doesnt want to sent it :( > > > > So how do you do that with the sendmail command ? >=20 > As everyone else notes, this is not a job for e-mailing. Even if you > want to e-mail the file, it is not a job for sendmail. When you send > attachments they are typically base64 encoded, this explodes the file > from 5.5MB to about 8MB. >=20 > You can cut it up in two ways: Use transcode to make shorter clips and > send separately or convert the file to base64, then cut it up manually > and ask your friend to concateneate the attachments and deconvert from > base64. >=20 > The second option is the low tech - transcode is not designed to be user > friendly. >=20 > But, as everyone suggest: Setup anon ftp, an apache webserver, or give > ssh access - all of these are faster, simpler and better. This is > posible if you are not NAT'ed and have a reasonably fixed ip. >=20 > Erik well i can setup a ftp but then i have to leave my pc on all the time , people need to sleep you know and i cant sleep whith PRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR in the background. irc wasnt made to sent files either and look at it now , its more popular then ftp :) So how do i get a movie in my friends mailbox using sentmail ? I was thinking in de lines of sendmail -t blabla@blabla.bla -a movie.mpeg -m hello.txt -s hello ?