Re: [Evolution] attachments issue

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 09:52 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 10:30 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > >         
> > > >  the .pdf source is indeed  there (and the mail file is huge)  
> > > Define huge.  1Mb? 5Mb? 100Mb? 10Gb?
> > > around 15Mb 
> > Personally I wouldn't trust any mail system with that size of
> > attachment.
>
> Personally I, and 600+ other users here, deal with attachments
> multiple
> times that size every day all day with no issues what-so-ever.  
>
> This is not 1991.
>
> According to my notes I increased the maximum message size at my site
> from 20Mb to 75Mb in 2003... with no measurable increase in issues.

I seem to remember a recent thread on just this topic. To recap what I
said then: your mail system may be happy with large attachments, but you
can't assume that every relay in the path to any random destination is
equally happy.

poc