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Conference vmszoo::vmsmail

Title:VMS Mail Utility Suggestions and Discussions
Moderator:EPS::VANDENHEUVEL
Created:Thu Feb 13 1986
Last Modified:Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1943
Total number of notes:8236

1929.0. "Max Size of Body ?" by TRNOI2::SORRENTINO () Thu Jan 23 1997 11:00

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1929.1Works OK Here...XDELTA::HOFFMANSteve, OpenVMS EngineeringTue Jan 28 1997 10:4120
   I just successfully sent myself a 9970 block file...

   What are the user *process* quotas, and what mechanism (text editor?)
   is used to read the mail message in mail?  (The user *disk* quotas
   control the amount of file storage available to the user, and not any
   file access attributes -- if the 8K file was stored successfully and
   the sender received no errors, then disk quotas are likely not directly
   involved.)

   Some text editors need scratch space, and some text editors cannot deal
   very well with large files...

   Also, I'd suggest looking at the undocumented /FOREIGN switch, as this
   allows one to send large files around via MAIL.  (This switch requires
   the sender, the receiver, and all intervening nodes be running MAIL-11,
   not some other protocol such as SMTP.)

   Also consider setting up a mail subdirectory...  (This keeps those *.MAI
   files out of the user's home directory...)