Am Donnerstag, den 16.05.2013, 23:00 +0100 schrieb Pete Biggs: > >> > >> 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 ;-) > > > > No, it's because email is a "store and forward" protocol. So every > mail relay in the path from your machine to the destination mail box > must be able to handle the whole of the message. My mail machines are > set to reject messages over 10Mb - I know some relays that are set to > 2Mb.
... and the carriers communicate this to their users and those to their contactors - so everyone is to be informed, what message size must not be exceeded - if you don't want it back ;-) But there are no alien relays in a mails path, so every involved person knows what is allowed by that "closed system" ? Any other "random destination" should be only packet switching (situation in Europe) ... And I trust that a smart relay server looks up message sizes and drop all exceeding his limit before reassembling them ... No problems with spacious mails here ... -- Thomas Prost <[email protected]> ProstsInfo _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
