On 10/15/2014 5:12 PM, Brad Rogers <b...@fineby.me.uk> wrote:
> Send an email with a large attachment(1) and there are quite a few
> servers that will silently drop it.

Anyone who does that is breaking SMTP. If you don't want messages over a
certain size, REJECT them, but absolutely do not EVER accept then
silently delete them, that is just plain stupid.

> The worst of it is you can never know for certain if you're going to
> get "bitten" because routing can vary.

It isn't about routing problems, it is about properly configuring your
toolset.

> (1) 4Meg or so used to do the trick.  Things might be different now as
> more and more messages contain massive amounts of HTML and imagery.

Google accepts 25MB+, as does Outlook.com and most other freemailers
now. That is our limit here too.


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