[Red5] Come on guys! What is this!? - max size of mails

Gavriloaie Eugen-Andrei crtmpserver at gmail.com
Fri Jul 17 08:59:43 PDT 2009


Hmm, you have a point. But since the trac is up, maybe it will get  
populated soon by the people using this mailing list

Never thought that this list was so crowded...

Tx for the insights

On Jul 17, 2009, at 4:03 PM, Walter Tak wrote:

> Please do not forget that the mailserver has to send the 100 Kb to  
> every subscriber.
> There are near 2000 subscribers (digest + non-digest) to this list.  
> Just one of your messages forces the server to send out 200 Mb of  
> traffic (!).
>
> If you'd post your piece of code, nicely formatted, on pastebin and  
> only 50 users would go and check out what you posted on pastebin.org  
> then your message would probably only cause 2000 * 5 Kb = 10 Mb of  
> traffic.
>
> This is one of the reasons many mailinglists don't like the insane  
> overhead of html-formatted messages, let alone the fact that  
> formatting and HTML often don't go together.
>
>> --start copy paste--
>>
>> Your mail to 'Red5' with the subject
>>
>>   Re: [Red5] Saved live stream problem
>>
>> Is being held until the list moderator can review it for approval.
>>
>> The reason it is being held:
>>
>>   Message body is too big: 223353 bytes with a limit of 100 KB
>>
>> I do agree to put a cap on the email size, but this is absurd.  
>> 100KB!? I've only done a copy paste preserving coloring and fonts.  
>> Obviously,  the email was generated with both forms: plain text and  
>> html. That is  why is a little bit bigger.
>>
>>
>> For god sake. We are in 21 century, at least put a "round" number  
>> there... 128KB or 256KB.
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