--On Friday, August 20, 2004 2:51 PM -0700 Ken Tam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Can someone from the infrastructure group provide some info on the kinds of restrictions that apply to Apache mailing lists wrt attachment types and sizes? I looked around the Apache site but couldn't find anything relevant. Jamie's problem is just the latest in a series of ongoing difficulties we've been having with sending attachments.
The ASF mail server enforces a number of policies:
1) No mail from sites on a few RBLs (mainly dial-ups and spamhaus SBL/XBL) 2) No EXE, ZIP, or VBS files allowed 3) Mails over 100k are, by default, bounced by ezmlm 4) Almost all non plain-text content-types are restricted by ezmlm (mimeremove)
#1 and #2 are enforced by our mail server; #3 and #4 are enforced by our mailing list software. (There are some other rules, but they aren't likely to apply to this particular case.)
Usually a bounce message will tell you what happened. As Noel said, you need to give us specifics rather than a vague description.
I'd suggest that if you are trying to send an attachment, you should place them in the project's issue tracker not spam people with attachments. And, if it's a large code patch, you should break it up into small pieces. ;-) -- justin
