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Re: [trinity-users] kmail attachment size

From: Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@...>
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 16:27:22 +0100
On Tuesday 07 June 2016 13:02:05 Pisini, John wrote:
> You can change the size but it will probably not go through anyway. Most
> ISP and mail providers cap at 20mb although I have seen size limits between
> 5mb and 25mb I don't know of any that allow 50mb attachments.

My ISP, Zen, does.  They discourage it but allow it.
"For both incoming and outgoing e-mail the limit is set to attachments with a 
maximum size of approximately 80 Megabytes, depending on the type of 
encapsulation (base64, uuencode etc.) used by your e-mail software."
https://support.zen.co.uk/kb/Knowledgebase/What-are-the-email-file-size-limits

My recipients, however, can usually not receive them. :-(

Lisi

> There are web 
> services to exchange larger files including dropbox.
>
> On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 2:38 AM, Thierry de Coulon <tdecoulon@...>
>
> wrote:
> > Hi Glen,
> >
> > On Tuesday 07 June 2016 08.00:11 Glen Cunningham wrote:
> > (...)
> >
> > > > Today I wanted to send a somewhat large PDF and a "sorry" window
> > > > poped up saying: "Your administrator has disallowed attaching files
> > > > bigger than 50MB".
> >
> > (...)
> >
> > > add a line under [Composer] section of the Configuration File:
> > >
> > > MaximumAttachmentSize=20
> >
> > That was it. There is no option in the GUI settings, and there is also
> > no "MaximumAttachmentSize=50" in kmailrc, but adding this line does
> > marvels :)
> >
> > Thanks a lot and a good day (or night, depending where you live...)
> >
> > Thierry
> >
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