Most people's mail reading facility has the capability to filter and group incoming mail, making digests a relic.

Adding attachments will be a very bad experience for those 90%, IMHO. I suggest you try the suggested changes on a test list.

As was suggested in another response, the limit is used against the entire posted mail file, and you're a better cyber citizen by not using attachments.

On the other hand, good use of formatting as provided by html and perhaps images, can make a list seem more modern and pleasant to read. In this case, "attachments= image" and a bigger size limit, perhaps "sizelim= 4m" or larger could work, *if* you started a new list, or somehow managed to convince all those digest subscribers to use filtering instead (so they still wouldn't see every mail immediately).

So maybe it's time to train (whomever encouraged the digest mode) about the alternatives and then train your subscribers? (Baby steps)

On Jun 27, 2015 11:08 AM, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

After >20y and >3000 subscribers, we now wish to allow attachments. We changed the config file to read
attachments=yes
from a "no" setting. Still, subscribers cannot post attachments. We also have a line limit of 100 lines to keep people from copying the entire digest into their replies (>90% of subscribers use the digest). Could that be the problem? Does the line limit apply to the attachment?
Thanks for any help.

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