On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 22:48 +0200, Thomas Prost wrote: > Am Donnerstag, den 16.05.2013, 13:13 -0430 schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan: > > On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 09:52 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > > 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. > > > > I seem to remember a recent thread on just this topic. To recap what I > > said then: your mail system may be happy with large attachments, but you > > can't assume that every relay in the path to any random destination is > > equally happy. > > Why should they care ? Your mail doesn't come there at a stretch anyway. > Or does packet switching need a lull from time to time ;-)
Think again. "Relay" does not mean "packet switch". It means an intermediate host which stores and forwards complete email messages. Take a look at the headers of some message to see the relays it passes through before getting to you. For example at a quick glance your message passed through: pD9548C44.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (probably your own machine) mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (your local mail server?) moutng.kundenserver.de (some intermediate relay) restaurant.gnome.org (presumably where the evolution-list is stored) and thence via IMAP to my machine. Each of these is administered independently and has its own idea of how large a message it will accept for storing and forwarding. The largest message that will get through is determined by the *least* upper limit on any of these machines. poc _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
