Feigning erudition, Andrew Mathews wrote: % I've been searching for a reference to any specifications concerning % maximum message sizes for email. I've googled a fair amount but not % found anything specific other than RFC 1870 which doesn't give a % commonly accepted maximum size, just a 64k minimum capability. I'm % trying to provide some valid documentation to support my argument that a % mail server is NOT an server for large attachments, that's what we have % an ftp server for. Is there a standard for the maximum or is it simply % set by the individual isp? (we had a 10M limit and people are howling % since it's been reduced to 2M)
I'm not aware of a standard size. You could poke around at http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/, though. Getting Bubba Lunchbucket not to use email to send huge attachments is probably a lost cause, though. Kurt -- Beware of self-styled experts: an ex is a has-been, and a spurt is a drip under pressure. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
