Re: [Evolution] An interesting problem

[Matthias Apitz <guru unixarea de>]

El día Wednesday, June 20, 2012 a las 05:12:07AM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams escribió:

> 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.
> ...

In ESMTP you can query the size limit of the next MX with:

$ telnet smtp.1blu.de 25
Trying 89.202.0.34...
Connected to smtp.1blu.de.
220 ms16-1.1blu.de ESMTP Exim 4.69 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 12:23:32 +0200
ehlo unixarea.de
250-ms16-1.1blu.de Hello unixarea.de [89.204.137.213]
250-SIZE 52428800
250-PIPELINING
250-AUTH LOGIN PLAIN
250-STARTTLS
250 HELP

i.e. my ISP would accept 52428800 bytes; but this does not say if it is
reasonable sending such a piece of junk to someone today saying "look,
what I right now listening as music..." and the other is connected by a
link and has to pay for minutes or for bytes; this is IMHO just a stupid
idea, even beeing in the year 2012;

        matthias
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