Re: Message size too large (where to adjust)

[Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>]

Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:

> I've gotten this message:
>   The message size is too large, split? (y or n) 
>   Sending via mail...
>
> At times when what I was sending didn't seem all that large.  Where
> can up the anti a bit so that message only pops up if it really is too
> large? 
>
> An index search in gnus manual on `large' doesn't get me to the
> variable.
>
> So far I've just been saying `no' but then I always wonder if
> recipient will see some kind of problem

Generally saying yes will cause considerably more problems for the
recipient than saying no, since saying yes generates message/partial
messages which are often rejected by any spam- or virus-filtering
software.  As long as the message is smaller than the size accepted by
your local mail server and the remote mail server, you never want to
split.

I think the size in Gnus is set to something too small for modern mail
systems.  I'd recommend something like 20MB or maybe 50MB.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>