Constructing MIME message without loading message stream

[Diez B. Roggisch]

Kris Kennaway schrieb:
> 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