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* Re: maximum size buffer exceeded
       [not found] <yxdbqvvzcq1.fsf@cs1.gmu.edu>
@ 2006-04-11  8:41 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
  2006-04-11  8:57   ` Romain Francoise
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen @ 2006-04-11  8:41 UTC (permalink / raw)


Myriam Abramson <mabramso@cs1.gmu.edu> writes:

> For some reason, some people's attachments come out inlined and make
> my buffer overflow. I have to go into .emacs-mail-crash-box and cut
> out the attachment and use an external decoder to retrieve the
> attachment. Not all attachments come out this way however but it seems
> that this is occurring more frequently.

If the mail is bigger than 130MB (which is the Emacs buffer size
limit), you can't really view it with Gnus.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen

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* Re: maximum size buffer exceeded
  2006-04-11  8:41 ` maximum size buffer exceeded Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
@ 2006-04-11  8:57   ` Romain Francoise
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Romain Francoise @ 2006-04-11  8:57 UTC (permalink / raw)


Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> If the mail is bigger than 130MB (which is the Emacs buffer size
> limit), you can't really view it with Gnus.

(In Emacs 22 the maximum buffer size is now 256MB on 32 bit machines.)

-- 
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it's a miracle -- http://orebokech.com/ | sea! The blue, the fresh, the
                                        | ever free! --Bryan W. Procter

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