On Friday 04 July 2008 17:45:33 Mark Weaver wrote: > Anne Wilson wrote: > > On Thursday 03 July 2008 23:05:19 nate wrote: > >> Anne Wilson wrote: > >>> So 'size_limit' is what I'm looking for. Thanks everyone. Now comes > >>> the really hard bit. I have to tell her, blindfolded, how to tell the > >>> size of the message she is sending. She uses btinternet's yahoo > >>> mailer, and I haven't a clue what she can see there. :-) > >> > >> Don't forget to account for encoding overhead, which can be up to 30% > >> (maybe more). > > > > That's the bit I thought I'd have to guess. Thanks for the estimate. > > > why not setup a vsFTPd account for her to upload to? much easier to deal > with and can be chroot'd, and used by others as well. files go directly > to file system as opposed to having to be processed by MTA. When clients > ask me this same kind of question I generally tell them there's a lot of > good reasons why the internet standard for a 5MB attachment limit, and > if folks need to send files larger than that, then FTP services are > better suited for such things. You haven't met my daughter :-) I'm not saying that she's stubborn, but.... Anne