On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 10:30 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote: > > > >> the .pdf source is indeed there (and the mail file is huge) > > Define huge. 1Mb? 5Mb? 100Mb? 10Gb? > > around 15Mb > Personally I wouldn't trust any mail system with that size of > attachment.
Personally I, and 600+ other users here, deal with attachments multiple times that size every day all day with no issues what-so-ever. This is not 1991. According to my notes I increased the maximum message size at my site from 20Mb to 75Mb in 2003... with no measurable increase in issues. > > If you send it to > > yourself, can you read it in the normal folders? > > NO, this is the issue: If I just browse the Sent folder, and try to > > open the mail with the large .pdf attchment, then Evo hangs > That's not what I meant. If you send it to yourself - i.e put your own > address in the To: header - the mail will eventually appear in your > INBOX (as well as the sent folder) - can you then read the message OK in > your INBOX? Good question. Maybe the Sent folder is torqued somehow. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:[email protected]> GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
