RE: FW: [was 1 Request Part - 19 of 28] Requested (URL - http://www.swissair.com/download/tt99_00_exe.019)

File size: each file is actually only 204,800 (the 200k I mentioned).

Server file size limit: seems unlimited, as I've received well over several
MB in a single email before, with no apparent daily allotments either, as I
received many many emails yesterday AFTER the receipt of the majority of
those packages.

Delay: the request and the majority of the packages occurred approx 04h00
MET, with package #19 arriving fully 20 hours later (beyond the 12 you
mentioned.  The email attributes on the package I initially wrote you about
were:

	Sent (by your server): 20-Oct 4:12am
	Received (by my server): 21-Oct 12:04am
	Created (on my computer): 20-Oct 11:59pm*
*Obviously my computer & my provider's server are a little out of sync

File types: the file attachments do not appear UUENCODED (as TYPEing these
at a DOS prompt should reveal nothing but ASCII characters, no?); instead
these appear to be binary files (the TYPE command reveals the full range of
control characters and the entire 200k is shown within only 3 lines, having
encounter an EOF character for ASCII purposes)

My later request: the GETPART request for the additional parts did not
actually produce the desired effect of re-transmitting the missing packages
indicated.  Given that I've received the bulk of them, is there any means of
ensuring these get to me in exactly the same packaging format without
engaging a complete re-request of the entire 5.3Mb of file?  I scanned
through the help items, but did not see anything that would allow me to try
to receive the entire 5.3Mb in one package, or even 5 of 1Mb each.

Thank you for your input.  It sounds like there is something else going on
here, different from what you have explained.

Please advise.  Thank you.

-----Original Message-----
From: ONIME EHIMIKA OHIREIME [mailto:onime@ictp.trieste.it]
Sent: Thursday, 21 October 1999 9:18
To: Chris E
Cc: www4mail-comments@w3.org
Subject: Re: FW: [was 1 Request Part - 19 of 28] Requested (URL -
http://www.swissair.com/download/tt99_00_exe.019)



Okay,
I can guess what happened
1. www4mail answered correctly [ Mailed all parts]
2. The mail server (sendmail) decides that it is bulk mail and can afford
to wait.

3. The files do not get delivered within 12 hours and is deleted from the
mail queue.

This looks like I have to work on the priority of the mail server.

About the size,

Each part sent to you should be 276861 bytes...
The tendency is that MIME or UUENCODING a file increases it's size by
about 30%.  So what www4mail does is to try to ensure that the MIME
encoded file + Mail Headers + Text information is about 300K.

Anyway, what I mean is that after MIME or UUENCODING the size being sent
to you is aproximately 300K.

Assuming your mail server has a size limit of 300K on your mail box, then
it will refuse to accept a file attachment of 300K because after MIME
encoding the message size is now about 390K.

Thanks
Clement

On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Chris E wrote:

> I received most parts of this transmission after 4am, but no 19, 22-24,
> 26,27 (which I sent a later request for with GETPART -- sometime earlier
> today, after noon).  I just received this 19th part fully 19hrs after it
was
> sent from Trieste to Geneva.  With the internet package timeout being what
> it is, I thought this was an anomaly worth reporting.  (I removed the
> attachment so as not to burden your system, but is was 200k, as were all
the
> other packages.  Incidentally, I did not request a 200k package size; it
is
> my understanding the package size should have been 300k.)
>
> I am still awaiting receipt of parts 22-24, 26-27, which will probably now
> come through in the next little while.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: WWW by MAIL Gateway [mailto:www4mail@wm.ictp.trieste.it]
> Sent: Wednesday, 20 October 1999 4:12
> To: boods@span.ch
> Subject: [was 1 Request Part - 19 of 28] Requested (URL -
> http://www.swissair.com/download/tt99_00_exe.019)
>
>
>
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