SMTP Tester 1.0

Published on 2009-05-22 in Programming. 2 Comments

Since I keep finding SMTP Tester so useful, I figured I should finish it up, create the obligatory Win32 installer, and release it to the world. The only issue I’m having right now is that the Win32 executable created by py2exe is HUGE (~17MB). Luckily, the resulting NSIS package is only ~4MB, but even that seems pretty ridiculous for what the tool is/does. Needless to say, I’m very interested in suggestions for compressing this down further.

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  • bobwood
    2009-06-04 at 16:24:59 +0000

    I’ve had success in the past with UPX to pack the resulting executables, if you are just worried about the executable size. I tend to create single-file binaries (no separate DLL’s) with py2exe.

  • Mike
    2009-06-05 at 09:51:06 +0000

    Thanks for this. It definitely helps a bit, but I’m still only able to get the executable down to ~15.5MB, and the resulting NSIS installer package is roughly the same size (~4MB).

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