* Re: "The message size is too large..."?
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@ 2002-12-17 23:19 ` Jesper Harder
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From: Jesper Harder @ 2002-12-17 23:19 UTC (permalink / raw)
Joe Fineman <jcf@TheWorld.com> writes:
> The message size is too large, should it be sent partially? y or n
>
> in the minibuffer. If I answer no, it seems to send the whole
> attachment -- or at least, my customers have not complained. The
> reprobation is perplexing, tho -- too large for what or whom?
,----[ RFC 1427, section 4 ]
|
| An SMTP server may have a fixed upper limit on message size. Any
| attempt by a client to transfer a message which is larger than this
| fixed upper limit will fail. In addition, a server normally has
| limited space with which to store incoming messages. Transfer of a
| message may therefore also fail due to a lack of storage space, but
| might succeed at a later time.
|
| A client using the unextended SMTP protocol defined in [1], can only
| be informed of such failures after transmitting the entire message to
| the server (which discards the transferred message).
`----
Gnus doesn't know if there is such a limit for a particular server, so
it chooses a default maximum value (1000000 bytes).
If you know the limit for your server[1] you can set
`message-send-mail-partially-limit' accordingly (nil for no limit).
[1] telnet and issue "EHLO".
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