[nos-bbs] Max message size, quotas?

[Michael E Fox - N6MEF]

Thanks Ray.

 

Yes, a common (and really slick) packet user client is Outpost, written by Jim Oberhofer, KN6PE (www.outpostpm.org).  Outpost currently imposes a 10 KB limit.

 

And that’s actually the stimulus for the question.  Jim contacted me because he’s going to increase the message size limit in Outpost.  Currently, Winlink supports up to 1.2 MB (I believe).  Jim tested message sizes up to 2.6 MB with JNOS without a problem.  So we were just wondering if there was a limit?

 

Also, the opportunity to send really large messages opens the system to the possibility of a denial of service attack or even an accidental filling of the disk (or partition where JNOS is operating).  So that was the reason for my question about mailbox quotas.  

 

Since I can’t find anything in the manual about these two questions and since I’ve seen no other responses, I have to assume that:  a) no one knows what the limit is, and b) there’s no way to set a mailbox quota.

 

Michael

N6MEF

 

From: nos-bbs-bounces at tapr.org [mailto:nos-bbs-bounces at tapr.org] On Behalf Of Ray Quinn
Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2014 6:10 AM
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Michael,

I have seen a lot of messages truncated at 10,000 bytes or characters (I can't remember which). But that may not be for JNOS.

 

 

73 de Ray W6RAY
Visalia, CA DM06ih

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