Re: [Evolution] error sending message - data-command failed ???

[Thomas Prost <thomas prost prosts info>]

Am Freitag, den 05.04.2013, 09:35 +0100 schrieb Pete Biggs: 
> On Fri, 2013-04-05 at 08:50 +0200, Thomas Prost wrote:
> > ??? What the hell is this -->
> >
> > Fehler bei »Nachricht wird verschickt«.
> >
> > DATA-Befehl gescheitert: a message size of 40962 kilobytes exceeds the
> > size limit of 40960 kilobytes computed for this transaction
> >
> > just returned from evolution2.32.2-0ubuntu :-(
> > Please: Don't comment how old it is. If someone knows about the error
> > you're welcome ...
>
> 40Mb mail message!  The message is too big for your mail server. (Just,
> by 2kb - I'm surprised your mail server allows anything close to that
> size - mine certainly don't.)
>
> The error you see is nothing to do with Evolution, it's just reporting
> what the mail server says.

..ahh, got it - so I was wondering about the wrong origin. Sorry Evo :-)
I wasn't aware that limit at my provider. I have to inform him for more
quota :-)
Though it's poor living in the occident, but we have inboxes of 1 GByte
here. Maybe not every provider offers this in the land of
opportunity ...
--
Best,
Thomas