Re: [DNG] mutt attachment problem

2022-08-22 Thread Xenguy via Dng
From: "dng" ; Sent: Monday, August 22, 2022 4:56:08 PM Antony Stone wrote: > Haines Brown wrote: > > The size of the zip file is 164 Mb [...] > Perhaps some kind souls on the list might suggest possible ways to > send large binary files? That's the real problem and it needs a real > solution. >

Re: [DNG] mutt attachment problem

2022-08-22 Thread Marjorie Roome via Dng
Hi Haines, On Mon, 2022-08-22 at 14:56 -0600, Bob Proulx via Dng wrote: > Antony Stone wrote: > > Haines Brown wrote: > > > The size of the zip file is 164 Mb > > > > 164MB!  OMG!  Repeat after me.  "SMTP is not a file transport > protocol."  The likelihood of being able to send a 164MB email >

Re: [DNG] mutt attachment problem

2022-08-22 Thread Joel Roth via Dng
On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 02:56:08PM -0600, Bob Proulx via Dng wrote: > 164MB! OMG! Repeat after me. "SMTP is not a file transport > protocol." The likelihood of being able to send a 164MB email message > from one random system on the net to another random system on the net > today is

Re: [DNG] mutt attachment problem

2022-08-22 Thread Bob Proulx via Dng
Antony Stone wrote: > Haines Brown wrote: > > The size of the zip file is 164 Mb > > Just in case it's actually your mail service provider responding to your mail > client trying to send such a large message, try the same thing but with a > small zip file (such as 2Mb) to see whether that nakes

Re: [DNG] mutt attachment problem

2022-08-22 Thread Antony Stone
On Monday 22 August 2022 at 18:10:53, Haines Brown wrote: > I usually have no problem sending attachments with mutt. But now I > want to send a directory that holds files: > > ./patthToDirectory/directory > > This does not work because I gather attachements must be > single files. Is not a

[DNG] mutt attachment problem

2022-08-22 Thread Haines Brown
I usually have no problem sending attachments with mutt. But now I want to send a directory that holds files: ./patthToDirectory/directory This does not work because I gather attachements must be single files. Is not a directory a single file?. So I zipped the directory. But when I try to