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

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

FWIW, after literally months of gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair
over this bug, we reproduced and discovered the source of the bug today.
The mail developers are trying to figure out the best solution as we
speak and it'll be fixed by Monday.
Luis

On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 19:11, Mike Barnes wrote:
> On Sat, 2001-11-03 at 03:25, Ujwal S. Sathyam wrote:
> > 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.
>
> I just did some testing and reproduced this. I also got some truncation
> of a file using the local sendmail, not just a remote SMTP server.
> Admittedly, the truncation was only 57 bytes, as opposed to 5003055
> bytes when sent via SMTP, but it's certainly far from the ideal.
>
> I've added a hefty annotation to bug 6024, and am happy to provide any
> information necessary on this one.
>
> http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=6024
>
> Mike.
>
>
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