Re: OT: Question on max message size

2011-08-08 Thread Rob Sterenborg (Lists)
On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 07:58 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > On 8/6/2011 1:26 AM, Rob Sterenborg (Lists) wrote: > > On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 01:04 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > >> Or do the smart thing: use a file transfer protocol for transferring > >> files instead of an email protocol. HTTP and FTP

Re: Question on max message size

2011-08-08 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/6/2011 1:26 AM, Rob Sterenborg (Lists) wrote: > On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 01:04 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: >> Or do the smart thing: use a file transfer protocol for transferring >> files instead of an email protocol. HTTP and FTP are readily available >> good examples. > > We don't know why t

Re: Question on max message size

2011-08-05 Thread Rob Sterenborg (Lists)
On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 01:04 -0500, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Or do the smart thing: use a file transfer protocol for transferring > files instead of an email protocol. HTTP and FTP are readily available > good examples. We don't know why the OP wants this so it may not be that simple. Recently I h

Re: Question on max message size

2011-08-05 Thread Stan Hoeppner
On 8/5/2011 9:12 AM, Magnus Bäck wrote: > On Friday, August 05, 2011 at 15:37 CEST, > Nikolaos Milas wrote: > >> A quick question: message_size_limit refers to the MIME-encoded >> (base64) "final" message size or to the initial (non-encoded) size >> of message + attachments? > > The former.

Re: Question on max message size

2011-08-05 Thread Nikolaos Milas
On 5/8/2011 5:12 μμ, Magnus Bäck wrote: A quick question: message_size_limit refers to the MIME-encoded (base64) "final" message size or to the initial (non-encoded) size of message + attachments? The former. That's the only representation of an email that's ever sent or stored. Thanks, Nick

Re: Question on max message size

2011-08-05 Thread Magnus Bäck
On Friday, August 05, 2011 at 15:37 CEST, Nikolaos Milas wrote: > A quick question: message_size_limit refers to the MIME-encoded > (base64) "final" message size or to the initial (non-encoded) size > of message + attachments? The former. That's the only representation of an email that's ev

Question on max message size

2011-08-05 Thread Nikolaos Milas
Hi everyone, A quick question: message_size_limit refers to the MIME-encoded (base64) "final" message size or to the initial (non-encoded) size of message + attachments? (Encoded message size should be about 30% larger than the original, so if we want to allow attachments of max size e.g. 30