[Evolution] check file size before transmitting!
Bram Mertens
bram-mertens@linux.be
Fri, 14 May 2004 20:39:58 +0200
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 16:37, Tony Earnshaw wrote:
> tor, 13.05.2004 kl. 21.50 skrev Erik Bågfors:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > Someone will probably correct me if it's actually evo that stops it
>
> If the smtp setting is for smtp mail service and Evo does ehlo, it
> should see (most MTAs) a maximum size advertised and refuse to send the
> mail but it doesn't.
>
> OTOH if the smtp setting is for Sendmail, it won't see any maximum mail
> size advertised.
[...]
I have configured evo to use SMTP mail, sendmail isn't even running on
this box...
Does this mean my ISP's SMTP server is broken/doesn't support this or
could there be something misconfigured on my side?
TIA
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