On 15 Jun 2005 at 23:54, Jim Green wrote:
> My ISP has just told me that no mailer will download an e-mail msg (ie msg
> + attachments) larger than 1meg. That doesn't seem right to me.
That's a very odd thing to say -- first, the ambiguity: what do they mean
by "mailer" -- mail client? [like outlook or eudora]??
Fact is that AFAIK, *NO* email client has any maximum limit whatsoever on
what it will download (although with most you can *set* a max download
limit). The biggest problem we see is that many customers have little
clue of what their mail client is doing, and so if they start downloading
a huge message they think their client got 'stuck', but it is really just
chugging along.
There *are* two limits imposed by almost all ISPs:
1) Maximum message size. This is configured in the SMTP client and is
generally fairly large [we have ours set at 10 megs] and governs
ALL email handled by the SMTP server: incoming, outgoing and
forwarding.
2) Maximum mailbox size. This is configured in the mail delivery
agent and varies wildly by ISP [5 megs used to be a common limit]
Neither of those really fits into the wording of "no mailer will
download" so I'm not sure what your ISP was talking about...
/Bernie\
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