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Max Limit on File Attachment
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19/02/2008 11:41:44
 
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
West Wind Web Connection
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 8 SP1
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
01292420
Message ID:
01293804
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16
Thank you for responding. We'll be checking with the administrators to raise the attachment limit. More likely than not, however, we'll have to rewrite the applications to ensure smaller attachments.


>The message is actually being sent just fine. What you're seeing is a response from the target system (the recipient's mail server) that lets you know that it can't deliver the message due to the size of the mail box.
>
>This is not a sending issue - it's a receiving issue <g>...
>
>wwIPStuff will send messages of any size, but there are limits on the server (potentially) and definite mail box limits. For example, I have my mailbox with my ISP configured to reject any attachments over 3 megs so this is configurable by the user, administrator on the other end.
>
>Nothing you can do about this from the client end of things.
>
>+++ Rick ---
>
>>We are using WWIPSTUFF to automate emails and it is working wonderfully well for what we want. At least it had been. The attachments have been small in size. Today, instead of the expected email, we got
>>
>>Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.
>>
>> Subject: Standard Costs
>> Sent: 2/13/2008 12:00 PM
>>
>>The following recipient(s) could not be reached:
>>
>> Richard Pupko on 2/13/2008 12:00 PM
>> This message is larger than the current system limit or the recipient's mailbox is full. Create a shorter message body or remove attachments and try sending it again.
>> < svr-email.paramit.com #5.2.3 >

>>
>>Using Outlook, I can send the attached file directly without problem.
>>
>>The method which sends the email (wwipstuff.sendmail) is
>>DECLARE integer SendMail ;
>>   IN (THIS.cDLLPath) ;
>>   STRING cFrom, etc;
>>
>>*** these are both empty
>>lcUsername = IIF(!EMPTY(this.cUsername),STRCONV(THIS.cUsername,13),"")
>>lcpassword = IIF(!EMPTY(this.cPassword),STRCONV(This.cPassword,13),"")
>>
>>llResult=IIF(SendMail(lcSenderEmail, lcSenderName,;
>>            lcRecipient, lcCCList,lcBCCList,;
>>            lcSubject, lcMessage, lcAttachment,;
>>            lcMailServer,@lcError,lcContentType,THIS.nSMTPPort,THIS.cExtraHeaders,;
>>            lcUsername, lcPassword)=1,.T.,.F.)
>>
>>I don't think the actual values are relevant. I can change lcAttachment back and forth and it works with < 3 MB files and not with > 3 MB files. However, in both cases llResult returns TRUE.
>>
>>I also tried putting my userid and password into the application. I'm pretty sure I did that correctly because when I used an invalid password I got an authentication error. Unfortunately, it did not alter the results. I still got a result of TRUE but the error message was delivered to the lcSenderEmail address and the actual email was not sent.
>>
>>Does anybody know if there is a built in limit in WWIPSTUFF or if this is a parameter within Outlook? We can fix the calling program not to build that large an attachment, but would obviously prefer to get the email program working with the larger files.
>>
>>Any assistance is greatly appreciated.............Rich
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