Message Size not enforced properly

Bug #265645 reported by Leftlink
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GNU Mailman
Invalid
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

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"

[http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=553557&group_id=103&atid=100103]

Revision history for this message
Jean.c.h (slug71) wrote :

Marked this bug as 'Invalid' due to its age and nothing further has been added in a long time. New versions have been released since as well as some underlying stuff in the OS platform itself.

If this bug still affects then please change status back to 'Confirmed'.

Changed in mailman:
status: New → Invalid
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