On Feb 16, 2017, at 1:48 AM, Jeff Breidenbach <j...@jab.org> wrote: > > In addition we have a max message size, which is currently set to 150KB. > The reason for this is we had serious abuse issues with large messages > back in the day, and also we don't really want to cater towards attachment > heavy mailing lists. A mailing list full of PowerPoint slides or similar > consumes > thousands of times the resource of textual lists.
Makes perfect sense. In this case, a large attachment was definitely the culprit. Our user had sent a ~6MB text file attachment. This happens occasionally on our lists -- we actually ask our users to send config.log or other such debugging files so that we can help diagnose their problems (Open MPI has a quite large configure script, and yes, it can produce a ~6MB config.log (!)). In general, would it be possible to still archive the mail, but strip the large attachment? Extra bonus points for replacing it with a smaller attachment containing text indicating that the large attachment had been stripped. :-) -- Jeff Squyres jsquy...@cisco.com _______________________________________________ Gossip mailing list https://www.mail-archive.com/gossip@mail-archive.com https://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin/mailman/options/gossip
