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

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

Hurray!!!! What was the issue, if I may ask? I did spend quite a few hours digging into the code, so I am curious...

Ujwal


On Fri, 2001-11-02 at 17:25, Luis Villa wrote:
> 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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