Email size recession?

[Andy]

Does anyone know today's "official" limit on email attachment size? I'm
now finding that 1Mb attachments suffer from the "SMTP command rejected
while talking to smtp.demon.co.uk: DATA 421 4.4.2
mdfmta005.tbr.inty.net Error: timeout exceeded" error.

This is getting unfunny; when I started Demoning I could send 25Mb.
--
Andy Taylor [Editor, Austrian Philatelic Society].
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[John Hall]

In article <K9OWE6Aw...@kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk>,

Andy <an...@kitzbuhel.demon.co.uk> writes:
>Does anyone know today's "official" limit on email attachment
>size? I'm now finding that 1Mb attachments suffer from the "SMTP
>command rejected while talking to smtp.demon.co.uk: DATA 421
>4.4.2 mdfmta005.tbr.inty.net Error: timeout exceeded" error.
>
>This is getting unfunny; when I started Demoning I could send 25Mb.

I don't think it's a limit on attachment size, just that sending the
email has taken much longer than Turnpike (which I see you are using)
was anticipating. Or maybe it's taken longer than the mail server was
expecting. Anyway, one end or the other has incorrectly assumed that the
connection has dropped and flagged a time-out. I think this topic was
raised by someone else recently, though I can't remember if it was here
or on dist. If the time-out was flagged by Turnpike, then there's
probably a setting somewhere that you can change to increase the value,
but I'm afraid I don't know what it is. I think it would be in
connect.ini rather than settable from within Connect itself.

I think for the time being the old post.demon.co.uk machine is still
working, so a work-around would be to use that. It's probably worth your
raising the issue on Demon's web forum.
--
John Hall
"Sir, I have found you an argument;
but I am not obliged to find you an understanding."
Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

[R. Kennedy McEwen]

In article <QGYntNCb...@jhall.demon.co.uk.invalid>, John Hall
<nospam...@jhall.co.uk> writes

I suspect it took Turnpike a lot longer to send 25Mb when Andy was a
dial-up Demonite than it does to send 1Mb attachments now. So the
problem would appear not to TP related but some incompetence at the
Vodafone/C&W/Thus end.
--
Kennedy