[freelists-users] Re: attachment symptoms
- From: John Madden <weez@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "freelists-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <freelists-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 17:13:17 -0500 (EST)
> Freelists recommends against allowing attachments, but a list can be
> configured to pass them anyway. Does anyone know what specific problem
> symptoms might appear? I configured a list to allow attachments, and the
> only symptom so far is that posts with attachments went to some, but not
> all users (about 20 users total). Some did not receive the posts at all. Is
> this how it fails when attachments are passed through, or do I have some
> other problem?
To send attachments, all you need to do is turn off the MIME stripping
with humanize-mime = off.
We limit message sizes to 5megs to prevent abusive attachments. (If
anyone sends 5 megs through email, they deserve a good beating. Email's
not designed for that, and there are much better ways of doing it.)
Provided you got in under that limit, everything should've gone fine.
Are you saying that some received the post, just without the attachment?
That would be bizzarre indeed, but I doubt that's the case, since the same
message is sent to all list members. (Technically: only one message with
X number of recipients is sent. It's obviously more efficient to do it
that way.)
If some recipients don't receive the message, it's likely to
be an error in its transmission. Turn on the CCERRORS and/or REPORTS
flag(s) to see more information on what's happening to the mail.
John
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