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

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2020-11-16 at 16:29 -0600, Anonymous Japhering via evolution-
list wrote:
> 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.

Gmail is I believe the most popular email service in the world and had
a limit of 25MB last time I looked. Certainly not 100MB.

> 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.

I don't believe they have shrunk. Limits used to be a lot smaller than
they are now. However the limit on the size of the message being sent
is not a limit on the total number of bytes being delivered. I think
we've all seen examples of some low-level official sending off a 20MB
attachment to all 3500 company employees when they could have achieved
the same result by just sending a link.

poc