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From: chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: mailer capacity
Message-ID: <254CF7C8.22537@ateng.com>
Date: 31 Oct 89 01:39:17 GMT
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Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
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According to 6600pete@ucsbuxa.ucsb.edu:
>Does anybody have any guidelines for the maximum size it is reasonable
>to expect the smallest-capacity mailer out there to have?

A brain-dead mailer on a 16-bit machine could conceivably choke on messages
with a total size of 32K or greater.  Allowing for headers and other cruft,
I'd limit each mail message to 28K or so.
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