From: Matthew Margolis <mrmargolis@...>
Date: 2005-08-08T22:29:20+09:00
Subject: Re: sending an email with an attachment in ruby

Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Matthew Margolis
>>
>>
>>
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Was this implemented in the last month or two?  I have 11MB attachments 
that I have sent through gmail.

Thank you,
Matthew Margolis