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Subject: Re: "The message size is too large..."?
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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".