On Tuesday 29 October 2002 10:40 am, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > Antony Stone wrote Tuesday, October 29, 2002 8:50 AM > > > The latter is correct. Before an email is transmitted, the sender tells > > the receiver what size it is so that the receiver can decide whether it > > has space to accept it. > > In most cases, no such decision takes place. Specifically, there are very > few servers (IME) that actually implement the SIZE extension, as defined in > RFC1870. > > Note that RFC2821 discourages decisions based on message size. Hmmm. I suppose everyone assumes that mail servers have infinite hard disk capacity these days... Antony. -- Which part of 'apt-get dist-upgrade' do you not understand ???
