From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/68416 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Harry Putnam Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Message size too large (where to adjust) Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:24:21 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <878wmay8qy.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87eiw24ruq.fsf@newsguy.com> <878wmaptz4.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1239236695 16555 80.91.229.12 (9 Apr 2009 00:24:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 00:24:55 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16852@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Apr 09 02:26:14 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 1Lri5s-0007ST-28 for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:26:12 +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 1Lri4T-0004uq-4l; Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:24:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Lri4R-0004uQ-Pp for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:24:43 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Lri4L-0005oE-SC for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Wed, 08 Apr 2009 19:24:43 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Lri4l-0004Mv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:25:03 +0200 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Lri4H-0003BX-SZ for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:24:33 +0000 Original-Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:24:33 +0000 Original-Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:24:33 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:x7Fezt1iMf6BdqjMVfqDajPI2aI= X-Spam-Score: -3.6 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:68416 Archived-At: Russ Allbery 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?