On 26 Apr 2000, John Conover wrote:
>
> I'm trying to run down a problem with MS software, (particularly
> Outlook,) where large email attachments are being chopped into many
> small messages.
>
> I was told that an MTA, like qmail, can ask the MUA to do such things.
>
> Is this true?
No. qmail doesn't _ask_ the sending system ANYTHING. qmail will _tell_
the sending system certain things, if configured to do so. For example,
if qmail-smtpd has been configured to reject messages above a certain
size (as defined by the numeric value in /var/qmail/control/databytes,
or the DATABYTES environment variable) it will tell the remote system
that the message is too big. If the remote system is smart enough to
realise why it can't send the message, then it can choose to send it in
smaller chunks. The remote system will have to have intelligence
sufficient to understand many different MTA error messages.
Such intelligence is beyond the scope of qmail (and probably outlook
as well).
Regards
Peter
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