* Message size too large (where to adjust)
@ 2009-04-09 0:02 Harry Putnam
2009-04-09 0:10 ` Russ Allbery
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From: Harry Putnam @ 2009-04-09 0:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
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
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* Re: Message size too large (where to adjust)
2009-04-09 0:02 Message size too large (where to adjust) Harry Putnam
@ 2009-04-09 0:10 ` Russ Allbery
2009-04-09 0:24 ` Greg Troxel
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From: Russ Allbery @ 2009-04-09 0:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
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.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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* Re: Message size too large (where to adjust)
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
2010-08-29 22:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Greg Troxel @ 2009-04-09 0:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
I have in .emacs:
;; Don't split large messages.
(setq message-send-mail-partially-limit nil)
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* Re: Message size too large (where to adjust)
2009-04-09 0:24 ` Greg Troxel
@ 2009-04-09 0:29 ` Harry Putnam
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From: Harry Putnam @ 2009-04-09 0:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
Greg Troxel <gdt@work.lexort.com> writes:
> I have in .emacs:
>
> ;; Don't split large messages.
> (setq message-send-mail-partially-limit nil)
Ahh thanks, I see C-h v shows its default to be 1000000
but what is it a measure of... bytes I guess.
If bytes it comes out to about .95 mb... that is a bit small.
Thanks again.
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* Re: Message size too large (where to adjust)
2009-04-09 0:10 ` Russ Allbery
2009-04-09 0:24 ` Greg Troxel
@ 2009-04-09 0:24 ` Harry Putnam
2010-08-29 22:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Harry Putnam @ 2009-04-09 0:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
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?
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* Re: Message size too large (where to adjust)
2009-04-09 0:10 ` Russ Allbery
2009-04-09 0:24 ` Greg Troxel
2009-04-09 0:24 ` Harry Putnam
@ 2010-08-29 22:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-08-30 5:49 ` Steinar Bang
2 siblings, 1 reply; 13+ messages in thread
From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 2010-08-29 22:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
> 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.
I've now changed the default to "unlimited".
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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* Re: Message size too large (where to adjust)
2010-08-29 22:15 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
@ 2010-08-30 5:49 ` Steinar Bang
2010-08-30 11:37 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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From: Steinar Bang @ 2010-08-30 5:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:
> Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> writes:
>> 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.
> I've now changed the default to "unlimited".
Actually I thought that many modern mail systems had a limit of around
10MB...?
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* Re: Message size too large (where to adjust)
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 15:00 ` Rupert Swarbrick
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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 2010-08-30 11:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:
> Actually I thought that many modern mail systems had a limit of around
> 10MB...?
I can't recall any MTA actually bouncing a mail because of excessive
size the past, er, decade...
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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* Re: Message size too large (where to adjust)
2010-08-30 11:37 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
@ 2010-08-30 12:13 ` Steinar Bang
2010-08-30 12:43 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-08-30 15:00 ` Rupert Swarbrick
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From: Steinar Bang @ 2010-08-30 12:13 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
>>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:
> I can't recall any MTA actually bouncing a mail because of excessive
> size the past, er, decade...
My ISP did, in their outgoing SMTP server, at least as close as a couple
of years ago.
(I don't use their outgoing SMTP server anymore, but others might)
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* Re: Message size too large (where to adjust)
2010-08-30 12:13 ` Steinar Bang
@ 2010-08-30 12:43 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-08-31 17:15 ` Steinar Bang
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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 2010-08-30 12:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:
> My ISP did, in their outgoing SMTP server, at least as close as a couple
> of years ago.
Right. But you'll get a bounce message (or it'll just refuse the
message and you get an error message immediately). I think that's
better than guessing at a limit, and then sending out split messages
that most (I think) recipients can't read.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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* Re: Message size too large (where to adjust)
2010-08-30 11:37 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-08-30 12:13 ` Steinar Bang
@ 2010-08-30 15:00 ` Rupert Swarbrick
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From: Rupert Swarbrick @ 2010-08-30 15:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: ding
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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:
>
>> Actually I thought that many modern mail systems had a limit of around
>> 10MB...?
>
> I can't recall any MTA actually bouncing a mail because of excessive
> size the past, er, decade...
Are you sure that GMail doesn't still do this? I remember my then
girlfriend sending emails of photos in batches to work around it only a
couple of years ago.
Rupert
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