On Wed, 2012-06-20 at 07:42 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
El dÃa Tuesday, June 19, 2012 a las 09:10:45PM -0600, Bart escribiÃ:Evolution 3.2.3 KDE 4.7.2 openSuse 12.1 Last night, I tried to send an email containing an attachment. The attachment is a .MP4 type file of about 12 meg in size. When I attempted to use the "Add Attachment" button on the bottom of the message, the window went non-responsive. I clicked on the close button at the top right of the window and waited for KDE to crash close Evolution. Not believing this happened, I tried again. (Why do we always do this?) I got the same response.I think this is the deserved reaction if someone wants to send a mail with an attachment of 12 MByte. The days when user will attach a complete DVD are not far away anymore :-(
NO WAY! This isn't the 1990s. There certainly is a reasonable upper limit for an e-mail message but it isn't 12MB. I routinely send 50 - 75MB collections of files via e-mail and via Evolution. Evolution never fails. Modern mail handlers such as Postfix and Cyrus IMAP are easily capable of handling these large messages. Well, if you want to GPG sign or encrypt a very large message it gets a little bit cranky, but in the end it does it's thing. Why it is failing on this one particular file I don't know. One interesting test would be to rename the file to something like "xyz.data" and try to attach it.
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