mailer capacity

[Richard O'Keefe]

In article <254CF7C8.22537 at ateng.com>, chip at ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) writes:
> A brain-dead mailer on a 16-bit machine could conceivably choke on messages
> with a total size of 32K or greater.  Allowing for headers and other cruft,
> I'd limit each mail message to 28K or so.

Too big.  I've run into a couple of relays recently that have 25k limits.
It's not only the ideal capacity of the mailer that counts, but how much
a site is willing to forward.