On Thu, 16 Oct 2014 06:54:09 -0400 Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org> wrote: Hello Tanstaafl, >On 10/15/2014 5:12 PM, Brad Rogers <brad@fineby.me.uk> wrote: >> Send an email with a large attachment(1) and there are quite a few >> servers that will silently drop it. >Anyone who does that is breaking SMTP. If you don't want messages over Yes, that's the point. >certain size, REJECT them, but absolutely do not EVER accept then >silently delete them, that is just plain stupid. Oh I agree, wholeheartedly. As I said in my reply to Joe, I suspect it's part of a misguided anti-malware program. >> The worst of it is you can never know for certain if you're going to >> get "bitten" because routing can vary. >It isn't about routing problems, it is about properly configuring your >toolset. What I meant was that, since at any given time a route from A-B can vary due to, for example a server being down, you can't be sure which route the mail will take and therefore, which server(s) it'll pass through and what their reject/drop rules are. So, not routing per se, but unpredictable consequences of passing through certain servers. >> (1) 4Meg or so used to do the trick. Things might be different now s >Google accepts 25MB+, as does Outlook.com and most other freemailers >now. That is our limit here too. Things are much better than I hoped then. I'll keep that in mind for future use. Thanks. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)rad never immediately apparent" I must be hallucinating, watching angels celebrating There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart) - Eurythmics
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