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Constructing MIME message without loading message stream

Kris Kennaway
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#1: Aug 9 '08
I would like to MIME encode a message from a large file without first
loading the file into memory. Assume the file has been pre-encoded on
disk (actually I am using encode_7or8bit, so the encoding should be
null). Is there a way to construct the flattened MIME message such that
data is streamed from the file as needed instead of being resident in
memory? Do I have to subclass the MIMEBase class myself?

Kris

Diez B. Roggisch
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#2: Aug 10 '08

re: Constructing MIME message without loading message stream


Kris Kennaway schrieb:
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I would like to MIME encode a message from a large file without first
loading the file into memory. Assume the file has been pre-encoded on
disk (actually I am using encode_7or8bit, so the encoding should be
null). Is there a way to construct the flattened MIME message such that
data is streamed from the file as needed instead of being resident in
memory? Do I have to subclass the MIMEBase class myself?
I don't know what you are after here - but I *do* know that anything
above 10MB or so is most probably not transferable using mail, as MTAs
impose limits on message-sizes. Or in other words: usually, whatever you
want to encode should fit in memory as the network is limiting you.

If you insist, I guess the stdlib isn't much of help - try implementing
a SMTP-server using twisted. But this is just a guess.

Diez
Kris Kennaway
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#3: Aug 11 '08

re: Constructing MIME message without loading message stream


Diez B. Roggisch wrote:
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Kris Kennaway schrieb:
Quote:
>I would like to MIME encode a message from a large file without first
>loading the file into memory. Assume the file has been pre-encoded on
>disk (actually I am using encode_7or8bit, so the encoding should be
>null). Is there a way to construct the flattened MIME message such
>that data is streamed from the file as needed instead of being
>resident in memory? Do I have to subclass the MIMEBase class myself?
>
I don't know what you are after here - but I *do* know that anything
above 10MB or so is most probably not transferable using mail, as MTAs
impose limits on message-sizes. Or in other words: usually, whatever you
want to encode should fit in memory as the network is limiting you.
MIME encoding is used for other things than emails.

Kris
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