On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 04:11:22PM -0500, David A. Bandel wrote:
...
>There are one or two pop3 servers (cucipop comes to mind) that will
>exhibit this behavior when an e-mail is larger than 2Mb. But if that's
>the case, you have idiots working in the ISP who should limit incoming
>mail (sendmail will do this) to under 2Mb in size but haven't.
While I agree with the sentiment, it doesn't work in the Real World(tm)
where customers insist on using e-mail to do file transfers instead of ftp.
They bitch like crazy with 2MB limits, and many ISPs kick this up to 8MB or
so. I don't know how many times I've gotten calls where some idiot's
mailed the family photo album as a Word document full of BMP attachments.
Then they wondered why they could never retrieve their mail from the server
-- even it it's on the same LAN! The last time I had to fix one of these,
the user's mailbox was well over 100MB, and contained three copies of the
same 33MB message.
I always point them to my on-line help page on this, but it never seems to
go any good. As they say, ``you can always tell a Harvard Man, but not
much''.
http://www.celestial.com/on-line-help/mailfiles.html
Bill
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