[comp.mail.misc] maximum reliable message length?

steve@unidata.ucar.edu (Steve Emmerson) (06/12/91)

Greetings,

What is the length of the longest message that can be reliably 
transmitted throughout the Internet and UUCP networks?

Someone's trying to send me some software from Britain and it keeps 
failing.

Thanks in advance,
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Steve Emmerson        steve@unidata.ucar.edu        ...!ncar!unidata!steve

vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul Vixie) (06/13/91)

most of us use 64K as the max message size when we post or mail something.
a lot of TCP/SMTP mailers have no upper limit, but the world is not yet
full of those.

cheers,
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Paul Vixie
DEC Western Research Lab	<vixie@pa.dec.com>	<paul@vixie.sf.ca.us>
Palo Alto, California, USA	...!decwrl!vixie	...!vixie!paul