On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, John P. Donaldson wrote:
> I set up a list that appears to be working fine. However, I just got a
> bounced message with this error message in the subject line:
>
> BOUNCE bounced Message too long (>40000 chars).
>
> The message that bounced had two attachments in it totalling only 36kb.
That plus the headers and main text could easily put it over the 40K
limit.
> The attachments didn't come accross as attachment as they were spit out as
> text in the body of the message, hence the "Message too long" error.
Not really. The size limit counts attachments as well as everything else
(including headers I believe). The only reason that you saw the
attachments in their raw form was because the MIME headers that would
have told your mailer to look for parts was not in the header of the
message you got, but in the body of the bounce message (as it needs
to be if you are going to approve the message). So, had you approved
the message in the normal way, it would have gone to the list with
all its MIME stuff in tact.
> I read in the readme that Majordomo isn't designed to be a file transfer
> system, however, these attachments were very small. Is there a way to
> successfuly send attachments in a Majordomo list?
If you consider a 40K message small to send to many people, then increase
the size limit from 40K to something larger. 40K is a large message, but
is a small MS-Word file and a microscopic PowerPoint file. Talk
to you email adminsistrators about whether they are happy to be chucking
around many copies of files of the size you envision on a routine basis.
But if you have a list of say 100 people, multipy sizes by that. And
if those people read their mail by dial-up, add up the total hours
for downloading messages to the list. As they say, a picture is
worth a thousand words -- but it often costs 50,000.
What I try to do is encourage people to upload large files to a website,
and mail a small message giving the location.
-j
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