[X4U] Max Mail Size?

[Cover, Chris]

Here's the deal. I replied to one of the 'opener" posts. It was intercepted
by the listmaster for being 'to large." I just received a notice that the
email was rejected for "no reason given."
So basically it confirmed that the list is being moderated for content in
some form that is not related to the email server.

> From: Eugene <list-themacintoshguy at fsck.net>
> Reply-To: "A place to discuss Mac OS X for the casual user."
> <x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com>
> Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:44:45 -0500
> To: x4u at listserver.themacintoshguy.com
> Subject: Re: [X4U] Max Mail Size?
> 
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 10:59:13AM -0400, Cover, Chris wrote:
> : Steve Self wrote:
> : >On Oct 27, 2004, at 7:52 AM, Cover, Chris wrote:
> : >>
> : >> It appears that there is a maximum size for mail. Is this true?
> 
> Chris, this is terribly vague.  Try again.
> 
> : > One issue to be aware of is the maximum size of your email partition
> : > with your server. Often these are limited at 5 or 10 MB. Thus,
> : > depending on what mail your are currently sending and receiving, you
> : > might be limited to a 3-4 MB file. It also depends on whether it is a
> : > POP or IMAP account. IMAP accounts can have a lot of mail stored on the
> : > server, if configured that way, and this further limits the size of
> : > files that can be sent.
> : 
> : The problem I had was in responsing to an email from this list. It
> : bounced back saying that the admin would have to approve of the email
> : because it was "too large." But nowhere near 5MB
> 
> Okay, much better.  The list admins have set up a custom rule that
> limits incoming messages to a specific size to protect list members
> from being overwhelmed by spam or otherwise large mail messages.  It
> also helps to force list members to trim their messages instead of
> quoting a message several hundred lines long and top-posting with a
> "me-too" one-line response.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Eugene Lee
> http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
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