[Cialug] Mail list question.

[Jeffrey Ollie]

When sending to a mailing list, it's almost always best to upload the image
to an image sharing site like imgur and mail the link.

On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 2:41 PM, Scott Prader <rigrunn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you for your response.  Indeed, I was unaware of a filesize limit on
> attachments, but given the number of possible recipients, I wanted to crop
> it down to as small as I could so that it wouldn't cause any congestion.
>
> Scott
> On Jan 1, 2016 1:43 PM, <matt at itwannabe.com> wrote:
>
> > The mailing list does have a rather small message size limit of 81kB, so
> > if even a small image is attached it can cause the list to hold the
> message
> > for review by a list admin.  For example, the attached image caused this
> > message to be delayed for review.
> >
> > Generally I just send these messages through after making sure there
> isn't
> > anything spammy about them (and there almost never is because you have to
> > be subscribed to send mail to the list), but I'm only one of, like, 5
> list
> > admins so I might never have seen the original message.
> >
> > It is possible that no one replied to the message if no one has an answer
> > for your question.  You should have received a copy of your original
> > message, though, as your email address has the option to deliver copies
> of
> > email you sent to the list to you (which is the default setting for this
> > list).
> >
> > If you tried to send the message from a different email address (other
> > than the rigrunn Google address), then it may have been blocked without a
> > notification to the list admins.  I've had that happen to me before
> because
> > I have a stupid, ridiculous number of email addresses set up in
> thunderbird
> > and my android mail client, and I'm not always paying attention to which
> > one is set to send new mail messages from.
> >
> > If the message size limit should be raised, that is something that could
> > be argued for in a new subject thread, as I'm pretty sure that the size
> > limit was probably set when a 33.6kbps modem was the normal method of
> > accessing the internet.  I'm not sure if it's really required when the
> > standard delivery method is "plain text", so you shouldn't really be
> > sending large MIME or HTML messages in the first place.
> >
> > -- Matt (N0BOX)
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Scott Prader <rigrunn at gmail.com>
> > To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug at cialug.org>
> > Sent: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 13:52
> > Subject: Re: [Cialug] Mail list question.
> >
> > It seems that yahoo! mail has fallen victim to something or other.  I
> have
> > attached a small file.
> > I sent an email to this address with a question on the 26th of December
> and
> > never saw the message or any response to it.  However I continue to see
> > other messages to the group pop up in my email regularly.  Did I not
> follow
> > the correct procedure in sending that mail message?
> > Could someone provide some feedback please?
> > Thank you!
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Jeff Ollie