Hello Marck,
On Friday, June 15, 2001 at 2:43:54 PM you wrote (at least in part):
MDP> The limit would really only apply to incoming messages
Nope ... It's the SMTP-daemon that uses a max. message size. An since most
users do NOT have their own SMTP-server that delivers directly to the best
fitting MX, it's a point one has to know also for outgoing e-mail, IF the ISPs
SMTP-server is set to a max. message size.
I was forced to set our LAN-SMTP to a max. message size too because one day a
trainee wanted to send himself @home a file with a size of 50 MByte. Unhappily
his e-mail provider, gmx.net, denies e-mail bigger 5 MB ... so he got an
error message (hours after he sent the mail, because base64-encoded it were 75
MByte data) with 'happily' contained the original mail in the bounce :-(
So another 75 MByte went through the line.
And it was sadly NOT the case he asks the Admin (me) for help for the error
message, but sent it a second time (of course to the same address).
THIS time I happily noticed the traffic through a rapid slow down in
connection rate and stopped the delivery BEFORE a second error message and
maybe a ban/connection deny by GMXs mailserver.
So all in all, even if I'm straightly going OT *g*, max. message size makes
sense and is applicable on nearly every SMTP-server, even the one dial-up
users use at ISP side for outgoing messages.
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Regards
Peter Palmreuther mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(The Bat! v1.53bis on Windows NT 5.0 Build 2195 Service Pack 2)
Frumble! Frumble! Istharcity!
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