[sdiy] Administrivia: Maximum message size

[Ben Stuyts]

Correct, a binary attachment (like an image), will be encoded from 8-bit / byte to 7-bit / byte (ASCII), so the message size it will increase by 12.5%.

Ben

> On 1 Nov 2022, at 15:03, Loscha via Synth-diy <synth-diy at synth-diy.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> I think that 4 megabytes seems entirely reasonable.
> I know that this only allows for a few medium sized images if pasted into the body of the email, as they're transcoded.
> 
> On Wed, 2 Nov 2022 at 00:50, Didrik Madheden via Synth-diy <synth-diy at synth-diy.org <mailto:synth-diy at synth-diy.org>> wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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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