[Evolution] check file size before transmitting!

Ow Mun Heng Ow.Mun.Heng@wdc.com
Thu, 13 May 2004 13:34:23 -0700


On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 12:50, Erik B=C3=A5gfors wrote:
> My guess is that's it's the mail server that says stop.  Not evolution.
> If that's the case there is no way for evolution to know that it will
> not be allowed until the server says stop.
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> Someone will probably correct me if it's actually evo that stops it
I think you are right in that. If it's sendmail you're using, this is
seen in the sendmail.cf file. It's commented out cos (I think)
sendmail.mc does not have this as a listed option.

# maximum message size
#O MaxMessageSize=3D1000000



> /Erik
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> On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 21:49, Bram Mertens wrote:
> > Hi
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> > I have recently discovered evo will not send messages larger than 10MB.=
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> > Unfortunately it already tried to transmit the entire message before
> > reporting this to me...
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> > Wouldn't it be usefull to check the file size BEFORE starting the
> > transmission?  Now I wasted 10MB of bandwith and about 15min of time!
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> > Other than that I'm quite happily using evo 1.4.5...
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> > Regards
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> > Bram
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