From: Ezra Zygmuntowicz <ezra@...>
Date: 2005-08-08T14:25:48+09:00
Subject: Re: sending an email with an attachment in ruby

Keep in mind that Gmail only allows attachments up to 10Mb in size.  
So you will have to split it into 10Mb chunks and send multiple emails.
HTH
-Ezra Zygmuntowicz
WebMaster
Yakima Herald-Republic Newspaper
ezra@yakima-herald.com
509-577-7732


On Aug 7, 2005, at 2:35 PM, Matthew Margolis wrote:

> I would like to send email from a server running FreeBSD(TextDrive)  
> to my gmail account to make a weekly backup of my customer's  
> website.  The attachment that I need to be able to send will be a  
> tgz and will be around 15 MBs.  What are my options for  
> constructing and sending this mail via ruby?
> Right now I am using PHPmailer for this job and it just isn't  
> cutting it now that the attachment is over 10 MBs.  I checked out  
> RAA and didn't find anything that seemed to handle attachments  
> well.  Simplemail looked to be the most promising but it doesn't  
> seem to play nice on my server, it just sat there eating up lots of  
> resources.
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> Thank you,
> Matthew Margolis
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