[Mailman-Developers] [ mailman-Bugs-553557 ] Message Size not enforced properly

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Bugs item #553557, was opened at 2002-05-07 23:15
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Category: mail delivery
Group: 2.0.x
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: rich cowan (leftlink)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Message Size not enforced properly

Initial Comment:
I sent an 26K message that also was sent out by my 
eudora
in an HTML version to a list that is supposed to be 
capped at a 40K limit.
The html made the message into a 112K message, and it
apparently went out anyway.  the msg is at:

http://lists.democracygroups.org/pipermail/rwwatch/2002
q2.txt

This message was
sent as both plain and styled text from eudora.
It seems to me that if someone makes the mistake
of leaving styled text on then Mailman should catch
that, i.e. the "message body" should be calculated
as the number of KB of both the plain and html
portions of a message.

the whole idea of the message size limit is to enforce 
a restriction so that a moderator of the list can make 
the email list more friendly to modem users, and when 
you end up letting huge html mail through, it kind of 
defeats the purpose.

-rich cowan
"Nonprofit Open Source Initiative"

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