Text 23589, 78 rader
Skriven 2011-12-17 16:53:32 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
  Kommentar till text 23577 av Paul Quinn (3:640/384)
Ärende: Fastecho
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Paul Quinn wrote to Alexey Vissarionov on Saturday December 17 2011 at 19:00:

PQ> In a message to Stas Degteff you wrote:

AV>>>> If I'll insert the full contents of "64k.mime" file into the
AV>>>> message - would your FE pass it, or choke on it?

PQ> It doesn't choke on it, it just truncates them.  Kind of a
PQ> rectification motion.  :)

AV>> I didn't get the answer from RB :-)

If he meant me, he didn't ask a question and so I didn't answer.

PQ> You're doing yourself a disservice, my friend.  Can you see the
PQ> extreme lengths you have to go to, to try to make it fail?  Any
PQ> 'normal' messages are fine when tossed.  Your example just proves that
PQ> your 64k.mime-inserted file ought to go via a file echo.

As I mentioned to Roy, you can set the cutoff length of messages in FE to what
you want (or not truncate messages at all):

Menu: Data/Areafix Options/Max. receipt size

Enter anything from 0 (zero = don't truncate regardless of length) to 99999. In
my system, the cutoff is 15K and I only very rarely get anything that was
longer (which should have been sent directly as a file attach anyway, and
certainly doesn't belong in an echo). Then it's truncated and put in Badmail.

However, most routing systems will truncate overlong messages, so that won't
generally do you much good.

Keep anything you want to send below around 64K (or break up a long message
into 64K - preferably smaller - pieces) and there should be no problems (unless
one of the routing systems has a lower cutoff level). Send anything longer and
you take your chances. It may well be stopped at one of the routing systems.

PQ> The only times that I've felt cheated by FE's limitation are:

PQ> * postings that are compilations of (recently received) files
PQ> listings, e.g. in the ALLFIX_FILE echo;

Overlong messages. And possibly truncated at some intermediate system rather
than FE on your system.

PQ> * posts of the Space Calendar in NASA-type newsgroups that I pull for
PQ> my reading; or,

Again, overlong messages,

PQ> * my old system maintenance BATch that used FE's post util to post my
PQ> system logs into a local echo.

And still another.

You can have FE toss messages of practically any length (up to 99999 Bytes),
but there's no way you can force routing systems not to truncate or sort out
overlong echomail messages. That may not be necessary nowadays, but it's a
standard that developed in the POTS era and still applies on most routing
systems.

PQ> The first I don't give a rat's ring about; it's just the *warning*
PQ> netmails from FE that bug me.

Warnings? Never seen anything like that here. When FE truncates overlong
messages, it just does it (maybe mentions that in the log, but I rarely if ever
look at that. Probably there's a switch in the configuration for sending you a
warning message when an inbound message is truncated - if so, it appears to be
set to "off" on my system.

PQ> Am I missing out on something not available here (in this hemisphere)?

Not if we're talking about FastEcho (FE).

Cheers, Bob

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