[Alpine-info] Alpine is Dead?

[Barry Landy]

On Thu, 28 Apr 2011, Carlos E. R. wrote:


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:>On Wednesday, 2011-04-27 at 20:58 -0700, Stan Peale wrote:

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:>> Carlos,

:>> I have no problem with the size of the attachments in an email that I

:>> originate, only in the forwarded ones.  My colleague has Alpine version 2,

:>> on the same local network. He has no problems sending large attachments

:>> along with forwarded emails. I think he has the same version of Mac OS 10

:>> that I have.

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:>I have tried an email with a 3.2 MiB attachment sent to myself, and then

:>forwarded it to myself again. No problem.

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:>I'm currently using alpine-2.00 under linux, but I have used other versions

:>previously. The only occassions on which I have had problems with the size of

:>an attachment has been when the MTA (see below) rejected it, but being a local

:>service I changed its configuration. It is possible that the MTA has different

:>limits for different users.

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:>Another limitation could be the imap server where you store email - if it is

:>your case. When an email is sent, a copy of the sent email is appended to the

:>Sent folder, and if it is an IMAP server instead of local storage, it could

:>reject it. But I don't see how this would only affect forwarded attachments.

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:>Then, there are content filters. These could reject big fwds, if they want.

:>But an advance rejection is uncommon, typical is a bounce after full send.


The outgoing attachment filter on the MTA could also fault on specific 
types of file names (eg .exe).


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:>> What is the MTA?

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:>Alpine is a MUA, Mail User Agent.

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:>The SMTP server is a MTA, Mail Transfer Agent.

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:>Typically all linux/unix machines have an MTA, nowdays probably unconfigured.

:>But it can also be remote.

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:>- -- Cheers,

:>       Carlos E. R.

:>       (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" at Telcontar)

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