Bug 6465 – Sending of large attachment denied: "File too large to be attached"

Bug 6465 - (int-149775) Sending of large attachment denied: "File too large to be attached"

(int-149775)
Summary:	Sending of large attachment denied: "File too large to be attached"

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Product:	Email
Component:	General
Version:	5.0/(1.2009.42-11)
Platform:	N900 Maemo

Importance:	Medium normal with 1 vote (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	unassigned
QA Contact:	modest-bugs

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Blocks:	6466
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Reported:	2009-12-01 09:59 UTC by olaf
Modified:	2009-12-09 10:43 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description olaf (reporter) 2009-12-01 09:59:01 UTC

SOFTWARE VERSION: 2.2009.48-5
(Settings > General > About product)

EXACT STEPS LEADING TO PROBLEM: 
(Explain in detail what you do (e.g. tap on OK) and what you see (e.g. message
Connection Failed appears))
1. Received email with attachment of 14.5 MB
2. Forward this email
3. Attachment limit of my IMAP provided is 25 MB technically (resulting in
approx 18 MB real)

EXPECTED OUTCOME: Sending of the forwarded email

ACTUAL OUTCOME: Immediate message "File too large to be attached"

REPRODUCIBILITY: always
(always, less than 1/10, 5/10, 9/10)

EXTRA SOFTWARE INSTALLED: not relevant

OTHER COMMENTS: Checking is not done with my email provider, maybe an internal
limit?

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR
1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; InfoPath.2;
SP3; MS-RTC LM 8) chromeframe/4.0

Comment 1 Andre Klapper maemo.org

2009-12-07 22:29:11 UTC

Thanks for reporting.

This happens without Nokia Messaging Service to me in 49-3, hence changing
component to General.

(In reply to comment #0)
> SOFTWARE VERSION: 2.2009.48-5

Uh? Where from? :-)

EXACT STEPS LEADING TO PROBLEM: 
1. Received email with attachment of 14.5 MB
2. Open email and wait until "Updating" has finished
3. Click "Forward button" in toolbar
4. Enter recipient address and click Send button

ACTUAL OUTCOME: Immediate message "File too large to be attached" triggered by
the system.

Comment 2 Lucas Maneos 2009-12-08 17:42:28 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> OTHER COMMENTS: Checking is not done with my email provider, maybe an internal
> limit?

Yes, it's hardwired to 15M in
src/modest-defs.h:#define MODEST_MAX_ATTACHMENT_SIZE (15*1024*1024)

Comment 3 Andre Klapper maemo.org

2009-12-09 10:43:51 UTC

This is currently a WONTFIX as " we found some time ago that with bigger
attachments tinymail becomes a little bit unstable and crashes sometimes."

Of course it's not a proper fix, but manpower is limited... :-/