Re: [Evolution] Re +1 : how insert a .gif into a mail

[Ralf Mardorf <silver bullet zoho com>]

On Sun, 2020-11-15 at 20:21 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 2020-11-15 at 19:08 +0100, Andre Klapper via evolution-list
> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2020-11-15 at 18:57 +0100, mario chiari wrote:
> > > ps.
> > > I am able to insert Angel's evolution.gif.
> > > My .gif is a animated one, 109.0 MB, and 272 frames.
> > > Do you  see  an issue?
> >
> > Yes: "109.0 MB, and 272 frames." Good luck. :)
>
> Hi,
>
> the issue unlike is Evolution. It should be possible to insert or
> attache an   {animated,} image   of whatever size.
>
> A while ago I met the kids of a friend when being out for landscape
> shots with a "low resolution" 24.2 megapixels amateur camera. I've taken
> a snapshot of her kids and wanted to send it to her email address at
> work. It was "just" a 19.4 M JPEG, but the server rejected the image,
> because it was to large. I was able to sent it to her private gmx
> account. Before doing this, I was able to send a little animation, a
> 580.3 K gif I've drawn, to my chiefess, to the same server as the server
> of my friend.
>
> I'm doing one or the other professional artwork, too, but already
> sending most of my smaller sized amateur artwork by email fails very
> often.
>
> IMO it's important to point out that inserting, attaching an image
> shouldn't fail. Sending large images usually fails, because email
> servers usually limit the size of emails they will accept.
>
> It's a different kettle of fish.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf

PS:

Am I mistake? Is it already impossible to insert or attach 109.0 MB?
If so why? Is the size per se limited via RFC?

Googling for RFC I found a limit of 50 MB. But IIUC there are "ifs" and
"buts".