Re: [Evolution] attachments issue

[Thomas Prost <thomas prost prosts info>]

Am Donnerstag, den 16.05.2013, 13:13 -0430 schrieb Patrick O'Callaghan: 
> On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 09:52 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > On Thu, 2013-05-16 at 10:30 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > >         
> > > > >  the .pdf source is indeed  there (and the mail file is huge)  
> > > > Define huge.  1Mb? 5Mb? 100Mb? 10Gb?
> > > > around 15Mb 
> > > Personally I wouldn't trust any mail system with that size of
> > > attachment.
> >
> > Personally I, and 600+ other users here, deal with attachments
> > multiple
> > times that size every day all day with no issues what-so-ever.  
> >
> > This is not 1991.
> >
> > According to my notes I increased the maximum message size at my site
> > from 20Mb to 75Mb in 2003... with no measurable increase in issues.
>
> I seem to remember a recent thread on just this topic. To recap what I
> said then: your mail system may be happy with large attachments, but you
> can't assume that every relay in the path to any random destination is
> equally happy.

Why should they care ? Your mail doesn't come there at a stretch anyway.
Or does packet switching need a lull from time to time ;-)