On Jun 2, 2015, at 5:51 PM, Andy Bradford <amb-xmhe(_at_)bradfords(_dot_)org> wrote:
One thing to keep in mind, if you are attaching it as a MIME encoded message, that 4.7GB file will actually turn out to be approximately 6.7GB in actual message size.
The bottom line is that there isn't an SMTP server on the planet that would accept a message that large. Never mind what a downstream IMAP server might do with such a Blob. In IMAP, <number>s are restricted to 4,294,967,296 bytes (2*32), aka 4GB. Nobody is going to be able to accept that message, and lord help their MUA if it tried. --lyndon
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