From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Message size too large (where to adjust)
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:24:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <878wmay8qy.fsf@newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878wmaptz4.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
>> 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.
That sounds a tab bit large to me... aren't a lot of those yahoo,gmain
etc type accounts only allowed 5mb.
But anyway, where do you change gnus setting?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-09 0:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-09 0:02 Harry Putnam
2009-04-09 0:10 ` Russ Allbery
2009-04-09 0:24 ` Greg Troxel
2009-04-09 0:29 ` Harry Putnam
2009-04-09 0:24 ` Harry Putnam [this message]
2010-08-29 22:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-08-30 5:49 ` Steinar Bang
2010-08-30 11:37 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-08-30 12:13 ` Steinar Bang
2010-08-30 12:43 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-08-31 17:15 ` Steinar Bang
2010-08-31 17:31 ` Steinar Bang
2010-08-30 15:00 ` Rupert Swarbrick
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