From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68414 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Message size too large (where to adjust) Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:10:39 -0700 Organization: The Eyrie Message-ID: <878wmaptz4.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> References: <87eiw24ruq.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1239235894 14970 80.91.229.12 (9 Apr 2009 00:11:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 00:11:34 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16850@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Apr 09 02:12:53 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Lrhsy-0004dX-Dk for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:12:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LrhrS-0004lr-IK; Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:11:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.33]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LrhrR-0004la-EQ for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:11:17 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx2.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LrhrL-0003GQ-J5 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:11:17 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp5.stanford.edu ([171.67.219.85]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Lrhrk-00041m-00 for ; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:11:36 +0200 Original-Received: from smtp5.stanford.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id C3A093B6BF0 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 2009 17:10:39 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (windlord.Stanford.EDU [171.67.225.134]) by smtp5.stanford.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id A64BD3B675A for ; Wed, 8 Apr 2009 17:10:39 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by windlord.stanford.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 3E62AE7A19; Wed, 8 Apr 2009 17:10:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87eiw24ruq.fsf@newsguy.com> (Harry Putnam's message of "Wed\, 08 Apr 2009 19\:02\:05 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -5.6 (-----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68414 Archived-At: Harry Putnam 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. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)