Subj : Message too long
To : Bill Gordon
From : Paul Quinn
Date : Sun Aug 01 2004 11:17 pm
Hi! Bill,
In a message to All you wrote:
BG> I'm getting a TON of 'badmail' messages, simply because they are too
BG> long. How can I change this? I've looked in fesetup, but find
BG> nowhere to change the message length. I'm using Fastecho 1.45+
Check your FeSetup-->Parameters-->'Message buffer size' value. Here's why,
from the FE doc file:
While FastEcho performs the toss or scan operations, it avails it-
self of a buffer containing one message at time. The present item is
needed to define the maximum size in kilobytes of this buffer and,thus,
the maximum size in kilobytes of a message that can be tossed or scan-
ned. the bigger this "message buffer size" will be, the bigger the size
of a single message could be. My only suggestion is to use a buffer as
large as possible, reducing it only in case you notice that your compu-
ter is short on memory. Using a large buffer doesn't affect the tossing
or scanning performances. In this case the admittible values range from
16kB to 64kB (upto 512kB may be setup for the OS/2 version). Only for
this tutorial, leave the message buffer size at 0 value (leaving 0 it
defaults to 32k) then, after you have completed the installation, go
back and tune this parameter.
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I have mine set to 512(k) even though I've been running FE with some form of
Windows over the last 10 years. I just shelled out from FeSetup in a Win95
DOS-box and DOS shows 594k free, so that may be the clue. :) Can't remember
any problems with message size.[shrug]
Also check your FeSetup-->'Advanced options'-->'Toss buffers' setting. It may
not have any bearing on the problem, but should be on "Large".
Cheers,
Paul.
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