From: Matthew Margolis <mrmargolis@...>
Date: 2005-08-08T22:41:40+09:00
Subject: Re: sending an email with an attachment in ruby

Matthew Margolis wrote:

> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
> Was this implemented in the last month or two?  I have 11MB 
> attachments that I have sent through gmail.
>
> Thank you,
> Matthew Margolis
>
Nevermind I found the blurb on gmail's site.  I guess I am going to need 
to figure out a new backup system.

-Matthew Margolis