Receiving Big E-mail Messages
By Robbie Rhodes
This is a summary of the replies from members about how their ISP (Internet Service Provider) and email programs handle big messages.
Dan Wilson writes:
> My off-line reader (AMEOL) will not display a message that is
> bigger than 32-kbytes. As soon as a big Digest comes in (since
> 96.05.26 I've had three) Ameol lights up the bottom panel in red
> telling me I shan't be able to read it all. [details snipped]
> All this takes very little time. I regard it as a very minor
> inconvenience. But divided Digests smaller than 32 kbytes would
> suit me fine ! Messages over 65 kbytes are amputated before they
> get to me.
Will Dahlgren writes:
> AOL has an E-mail limit. For this month, the digests of 07, 13,
> 14, 15 & 16 have been truncated and the main text sent as an
> attachment. [snip] AOL seems to display the first 2 kbytes with
> the remainder as an attachment.
Bill Maxim writes:
> Yesterday's edition was my first as a new recipient on the list --
> I thought they were all going to be that long! Had no trouble
> receiving it.
Terry Smythe writes:
> Some off-line mail readers, like Pegasus that I use, have a setup
> routine where you can specify the largest message that it can
> receive. In my case, I have setup Pegasus to accept a maximum
> message size of 99999k.
So far there are no serious difficulties. Jody thinks that long messages can be split by both the ISP and your email receiving program. Experiments such as Terry Smythe performed may locate "who" is doing the splitting. ... Ah, growing pains! :)
-- Robbie Rhodes
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