burrowowl
Sonic.Net
VIP
join:2003-01-22
Santa Rosa, CA
| reply to sanfranson
Re: Attachments too large for my Yahoo Email Acct.
$ telnet a.mx.mail.yahoo.com 25
Trying 209.191.118.103...
Connected to a.mx.mail.yahoo.com (209.191.118.103).
Escape character is '^]'.
220 mta485.mail.mud.yahoo.com ESMTP YSmtp service ready
EHLO sonic.net
250-mta485.mail.mud.yahoo.com
250-8BITMIME
250-SIZE 31981568
250 PIPELINING Looks like they'll take messages up to 31,981,568 bytes in size, which is slightly larger than that which the Sonic.net MX servers will accept (30,000,000 bytes). Unless about two megabytes of additional headers were being introduced during the forwarding process, it's unlikely that a large message would be accepted by our mail servers, forwarded to Yahoo, then rejected on account of its size.
Regarding the recovery of a message that did not get through, I would expect a bounce to have been generated at some point (by whichever server accepted it last in the chain of delivery) that would have been sent back to the original sender, but not for the message to have been retained by any system other than the one that originated it.
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John Fitzgerald
Sonic.net Technical Support |
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sanfranson
Norm, The Enourmous Basset
Premium
join:2001-02-08
San Francisco, CA
 ·SONIC.NET
·AT&T Yahoo
| Dear John,
Thanks for the reply. Since the message was extremely brief, essentially saying, "Here's three cool photos.", each about 5" square, something else must be going on.
Thanks again for your help.
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Cordially,
SANFRANSON |
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burrowowl
Sonic.Net
VIP
join:2003-01-22
Santa Rosa, CA
| If you could send me a private message with the sender's address, the original recipient address (presumably your Sonic.net address), and an estimate of when it was sent, I'll be happy to dig through our mail logs a bit for you. Nine times out of ten there's a useful error message lurking out there somewhere.
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John Fitzgerald
Sonic.net Technical Support |
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