email RFC's?

[Kurt Wall]

Feigning erudition, 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)

I'm not aware of a standard size. You could poke around at 
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/, though. Getting Bubba Lunchbucket not
to use email to send huge attachments is probably a lost cause,
though.

Kurt
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