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

[Anonymous Japhering <japhering gmail com>]

On Mon, 2020-11-16 at 15:07 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> On Sun, 2020-11-15 at 20:41 +0100, Ralf Mardorf via evolution-list
> wrote:
> > > 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.
> > 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?
>
> I would expect it to be possible to ATTACH a 109MB document - in fact
> I'm pretty sure I've done it.
>
> I would not expect it to work, in any mail client anywhere, to INSERT a
> 109MB image/document.  The body of an e-mail is a Document-Object-Model 
> kind of thing, and I just wouldn't expect any message edit to survive
> such a traumatic event.

Much less the ISP enforced limits on the maximum size of both an email and
an attachment.  I can't remember the last time I sent email or email with
attachment that was larger than 10MB as most of the services I operate through
have a 10MB total size limit.

One has to wonder if all the cloud file services (dropbox, box, onecloud, google
drive, etc) came about because of ever shrinking limits on the total size of an
email message.

Mike