On Wed, 24 Apr 91 16:35:38 +0200 Eric Thomas said:
>I'd say  it depends on the  size of the  file. If the gateway  imposes an
>unreasonably low limit,  like 20k, complain to the maintainer.  If on the
>other hand  the archive file is  really too large even  for normal BITNET
>users, complain  to the list owner  and suggest he split  it into smaller
>files. In any case, you can  use the database functions to retrieve parts
>of the archive files.
Well, for the record, the list in question is SAS-L, a very very active list.
The log file requested contains 24,500 records.
 
Our gateway has the following parameter MAXMAILBYTES 512000
Unless I am calculating this wrong, thats 500k.
 
I just tried requesting this large log, from another VM system here, via
TCP.   OHSTVMA's gateway received negative reply, file too large.
 
SMTP on the other VM also has MAXMAILBYTES set to 512000.
 
 
Duane