Anne Wilson wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > :) I know what you mean. I have a few clients like that. When I explain to them it's less trouble and effort they soon come around. -- Mark Ignorance, like Reality, is a matter of perspective. ==================================================== - If more people used Linux, Gas would be cheaper!