Re: Message size limit

[Andrew Bernard]

Hello All,

I can't help feeling a twinge of schadenfreude on hearing this. :-)

Although one can impose such restrictions in Discourse, you don't have 
to unless you are constrained by organisational problems as here with 
GNU. As to my suggestion about implementing Discourse, I'd be proposing 
running it on a dedicated linux server at one of the hosting providers, 
well clear of GNU infrastructure and limitations. Discourse also handles 
attachments and images very well, both in the web interface and in the 
email interface, no problems, and you can set maximum size allowed with 
ease to whatever your system can handle in terms of disk space.

See my next separate post about current status with this side project re 
Discourse.

Andrew


On 5/03/2023 12:29 am, Jean Abou Samra wrote:
> We've been informed that the size of messages to this list containing 
> large attachments is occasionally clogging up the GNU list server's 
> mail delivery queue, causing distribution delays (not just for this 
> list, but for everyone on the hundreds of other gnu.org lists).
>
> To avoid this, your friendly list admins have configured a max message 
> size of 512KB. If you send a message larger than this, it will come 
> back to you after a while, with a reminder that you should trim its 
> size. If you need to send a file larger than the limit, please use a 
> file sharing service and send the URL only.