Does ESMTP support the recipient being able to tell the sender to not send?
How about when I have a POP or IMAP client, and my ISP has the SMTP server?
Can I easily and transparently set an attribute for myself at the SMTP
server that instructs the sender to abort if the message is over my personal
limit? Is the ISP going to support the idea that I can set my own recieve
limit and, more to the point, that I may set it to infinity?
How do we make this work? Is a new protocol needed?
ICMan
-----Original Message-----
From: Dick St.Peters [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, December 17, 1999 10:50 AM
To: Stephen Sprunk
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Email messages: How large is too large?
> Customers are generally much happier when you give them what they ask for
> instead of forcing them to use something else; if people want to be able
to
> mail full DVDs to each other, it's our job to determine how to make that
> technically feasible and (hopefully) efficient.
Communication has the unusual property of having two users, and sender
and recipient don't always agree on what they want. I for one think
it is *not* the ietf's job to continue making it ever easier to send
what recipients do not want. The recipients' wishes deserve respect,
and the inability of email (as it exists today) to take them into
account is a major flaw.
My first posting in this thread observed that I had imposed our 5 MB
limit on email message size because someone sent a 100 MB email to one
of our dialup users. A one-size-fits-all limit is a rather blunt
instrument for protecting users, and it occasionally gets in the way
of things users legitimately want to transfer. It's a balancing act
with no happy alternative.
--
Dick St.Peters, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gatekeeper, NetHeaven, Saratoga Springs, NY
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