[sdiy] Administrivia: Maximum message size

[Didrik Madheden]

Personally, I wouldn't mind if it was increased even more. Bandwidth
is generally not a problem today. GMail and Yahoo both have a 25 MB
limit. Outlook (the artist, sorry, e-mail host previously known as
Hotmail) has a 20 MB limit I think. A limit of 20 MB would comfortably
fit about 4 images taken with a typical phone camera. 10-20 MB sounds
like a reasonable limit. Just starting to watch a Youtube video would
slurp more bandwidth within a couple of minutes.

Two potential problems:
1) A few people have job/university/private e-mail addresses that may
render such large attachments undeliverable.
2) This might start to fill up the list archive server. This
*shouldn't* be a problem since even cheap server hosts typically offer
many gigabytes of storage these days, but something to watch out for.

/Didrik

On Tue, 1 Nov 2022 at 14:35, Ben Stuyts <ben at stuyts.nl> wrote:
>
> Hi everybody,
>
> Recently the list rejected a few emails with a message size > 1024 KB. This limit was put in originally for people on expensive/metered internet connections. The rejected messages contained one or two photos and all were between 1.5 and 3 MB.
>
> Would there be any objections if I raised the limit to, say, 4 MB? Times are changing and I personally don’t know anyone where this would be a problem.
>
> (I would apply the same limit for the marketplace list.)
>
> Ben
>
>
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/Didrik