Re: [Evolution] Can't trust Evolution to send big attachments...

["Ujwal S. Sathyam" <ujwal netbrowser com>]

It is not an issue with inline or attached. The attachment gets chopped off while it being sent. The size was about 3MB. The recipient got an attachment that was 32KB. I think this happens only when the SMTP server is remote, i.e. more than few hops away. So there is some response and network delay introduced. When the transmission finally begins, it goes OK for a while, and then some evolution thread seems to kick in and clear out the data buffer that is being sent. So evolution sends an end of data signal.

Ujwal



On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 01:04, Mike Barnes wrote:
> On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 19:31, Rebecca J. Walter wrote:
> > This is interesting actually.  I can send tar.gz files without a problem
> > (entire manuals).  A few days ago, I tried to send a .doc file (created
> > in star office) to a customer and it totally broke.  The file she got
> > was then called "file.bin" or something like that.
>
> Actually, I can shed a _tiny_ bit of light on this one - I sent a PDF to
> someone who complained that she couldn't read it. Since I'm her local PC
> support, I went and checked - sure enough, her software was trying to
> display the PDF inline.
>
> Evolution had sent the attachment with the file type noted as
> text/plain. I meant to track this down a bit more and file a proper bug
> report (Gnome sure knows what a PDF is and what file extension it has,
> and what apps to throw it to), but I never got around to it. I bet
> something similar is happening to you. The attachment is probably fine,
> but the MIME file type is stuffed.
>
> Actually, could the person who started this thread qualify how large
> "too large" is, roughly? I've got a heap of disk space and bandwidth
> here, and I can test it out.
>
> Mike.
>
>
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