Re: [Evolution] check file size before transmitting!

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

On Sat, 2004-05-15 at 12:48 +0200, Bram Mertens wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 23:13, Tony Earnshaw wrote:
> > fre, 14.05.2004 kl. 20.39 skrev Bram Mertens:
> > [...]
> >
> > > I have configured evo to use SMTP mail, sendmail isn't even running on
> > > this box...
> > >
> > > Does this mean my ISP's SMTP server is broken/doesn't support this or
> > > could there be something misconfigured on my side?
> >
> > telnet smtp1.xs4all.be 25
> [...]
> > Your ISP's server says you can send 10M e-mails, that would be around 6M
> > files, once they've been mime encoded in base64.
>
> Thanks for looking into this.  I'm not at all familiar with this but if
> I understand you correctly my ISP reports the max size to evo which
> should then immediately refuse to send the message which it didn't. 
> Should I file a bug report on this?  If so what info should I provide?

That would be handy if Evo would, after mime-encoding the file, say,
"Hey, your ISP won't let you send emails this big."

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Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>