email RFC's?

[Net Llama!]

I've never encountered any hard upper limit anywhere.  ALthough i 
completely agree that email wasn't designed to be a file transfer mechanism.

On 01/30/03 18:17, Andrew Mathews wrote:
> I've been searching for a reference to any specifications concerning 
> maximum message sizes for email. I've googled a fair amount but not 
> found anything specific other than RFC 1870 which doesn't give a 
> commonly accepted maximum size, just a 64k minimum capability. I'm 
> trying to provide some valid documentation to support my argument that a 
> mail server is NOT an server for large attachments, that's what we have 
> an ftp server for. Is there a standard for the maximum or is it simply 
> set by the individual isp? (we had a 10M limit and people are howling 
> since it's been reduced to 2M)

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