Re: Problem gcc'ing with an attachment

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

David S Goldberg <david.goldberg6@verizon.net> writes:

> This is a new one.  It's happened a few times today and last week.  I
> admit I'm not fully up to date on gnus, though.  I haven't updated
> since last Friday morning.  But since that update, and possibly the
> one before it.  I cannot gcc messages with attachments into my cyrus
> IMAP server.  gcc will work to the netscape server, an nnml folder and
> the cyrus server can handle the message if I bcc myself and deliver
> handles it.  It finally occurred to me to set imap-log and show what
> happens.  Here's what it said.  Is this a server problem (I'm not
> aware of any changes there and my group runs it) or a client problem?
...
> 4608 APPEND "INBOX.in-box" {598763}
> 4608 BAD Literal in Append command too long

Assuming the message really was ~598763 bytes long, I think the server
started to limit the size of messages somehow.  Does this sounds
plausible?

Maybe you want `gnus-gcc-externalize-attachments'.