>Last week a US site sent one of our customers a mail message. This
>was not your common or garden message - it was 18MB in size!!!
>The US site's gateway mailer obviously has a couple of problems... it
>looked very much as though it had a timeout on the data part of the
>SMTP transaction, and typically 10MB got through and then the session
>was wrapped up and it tried again - immediately!!!
We limit message size to 4 Mbytes. Although its an arbitary figure, its
probably best to use ftp for files bigger that this.
Martyn
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