Re: [Evolution] check file size before transmitting!

[Ow Mun Heng <Ow Mun Heng wdc com>]

On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 12:50, Erik BÃgfors wrote:
> My guess is that's it's the mail server that says stop.  Not evolution.
> If that's the case there is no way for evolution to know that it will
> not be allowed until the server says stop.
>
> Someone will probably correct me if it's actually evo that stops it
I think you are right in that. If it's sendmail you're using, this is
seen in the sendmail.cf file. It's commented out cos (I think)
sendmail.mc does not have this as a listed option.

# maximum message size
#O MaxMessageSize=1000000



> /Erik
>
> On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 21:49, Bram Mertens wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I have recently discovered evo will not send messages larger than 10MB. 
> > Unfortunately it already tried to transmit the entire message before
> > reporting this to me...
> >
> > Wouldn't it be usefull to check the file size BEFORE starting the
> > transmission?  Now I wasted 10MB of bandwith and about 15min of time!
> >
> > Other than that I'm quite happily using evo 1.4.5...
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Bram
>
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