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From: ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: mailer capacity
Message-ID: <2596@munnari.oz.au>
Date: 31 Oct 89 03:47:14 GMT
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In article <254CF7C8.22537@ateng.com>, chip@ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
> 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.

Too big.  I've run into a couple of relays recently that have 25k limits.
It's not only the ideal capacity of the mailer that counts, but how much
a site is willing to forward.