RE: SNDDST

Good points but these are reports they want one total or page of and have no
other way to get.
It is going to our own MS Exchange server which will allow monster
attachments (those are the norm here). We have much larger Excel attachments
commonly.

Also users are too lazy and spoiled to wait for print to be delivered or to
god forbid have to use FTP and exert some effort. They use email of
attachment reports like room service.


-----Original Message-----
From: thomas@inorbit.com [mailto:thomas@inorbit.com]
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2001 6:48 PM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: Re: SNDDST


Karl:

On Thu, 05 July 2001, "Lauritzen, Karl" wrote:

>                All of a sudden any large (1000 pages) attachment on a
SNDSST
> command comes out unformatted on me. They come out a .txt files.


Although the *dtaara or CHGPOPA can be used, keep in mind that it might not
be a good idea to use either. If your attachments are so large that they're
being split, then it's possible that they shouldn't be sent as attachments.
In fact, if you cannot guarantee the behavior of all the e-mail servers your
e-mail passes through, then these should not be sent as attachments but
should be sent via FTP or other means.

A major point behind the split in the first place is that e-mail systems
commonly have limits on the allowed size of attachments. Maximum size might
range anywhere from maybe 500KB to 10MB or more. Your 1000-page PDFs could
be simply discarded along the way and you might never know, depending on
exactly how the particular e-mail system responds.

SMTP is an inefficient means of sending such files, inefficient for the
client, the server and the network. For example, any MIME conversion at both
ends takes processor cycles and the resulting size increase takes away from
network bandwidth. Within an internal network, it might be a small or even
trivial problem. But if the e-mail goes out through the Internet, you might
lose something without warning. Possibly unlikely nowadays, but still
possible.

Tom Liotta



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