[Dixonary] OT: Thunderbird Truncated Message

[Guerri Stevens]

Yes, another OT, but I know some of you are using Thunderbird and may
know the answer to this.

I have something set as a maximum message size. Always in the past if an
incoming message exceeded that maximum, Tbird would display a box with a
message inside saying something like "Truncated! Message exceeds
maximum" and allowing me to click to load the rest. I am sorry to not be
able to provide the exact wording.

Now I am starting to get a different message. Not always, but once in
awhile. The new message is this:

Truncated! with a graphic line underneath.
This message exceeded the Maximum Message Size set in Account
Settings, so we have only downloaded the first few lines from the
mail server.

Click here to download the rest of the message.

All of this in a largish bold font. And notice the "we". Who is "we"?

At any rate, this is new and as I say, sometimes I still get the old
format and wording. It makes no sense unless the detection of the size
setting and actions based upon it are not coming from Tbird's operation
on my computer, but somehow an external source of some kind. The sender
of the most recent message with the new format has a Yahoo Email
address. My tapcis.com Email is handled by Google now.

Should I worry about this?

--
Guerri

[Dodi Schultz]

Guerri Stevens wrote:
> I know some of you are using Thunderbird and may know the answer to this.
>
> I have something set as a maximum message size. Always in the past if an
> incoming message exceeded that maximum, Tbird would display a box with a
> message inside saying something like "Truncated! Message exceeds maximum"
> and allowing me to click to load the rest. I am sorry to not be able to
> provide the exact wording.
>
> Now I am starting to get a different message. Not always, but once in
> awhile. The new message is this:
>
> Truncated! with a graphic line underneath.
> This message exceeded the Maximum Message Size set in Account
> Settings, so we have only downloaded the first few lines from the
> mail server.
>
> Click here to download the rest of the message.
>
> All of this in a largish bold font. And notice the "we". Who is "we"?

Hm. I use Tbird (until last week version 2.something, now version 8.0); I
don't see anything about max message size under Tools | Account Settings.
Are you sure that's where you gave it this directive?

I imagine that "we" is the Royal We. Everyone knows that software is
superior to mere mortals.

—Dodi

[John Barrs]

Guerri

Latest TB (v8) Account Settings -- for each email account you have TB
collecting there is a "Disk Space" setting, on left col... click on that
and the right pane has (among other things) the possibility of limiting
message size

JohnnyB

On 24 December 2011 16:46, Dodi Schultz <DodiSchultz (AT) nasw (DOT) org> wrote:

> Guerri Stevens wrote:
>
>> I know some of you are using Thunderbird and may know the answer to this..
>>
>> I have something set as a maximum message size. Always in the past if an
>> incoming message exceeded that maximum, Tbird would display a box with a
>> message inside saying something like "Truncated! Message exceeds maximum"
>> and allowing me to click to load the rest. I am sorry to not be able to
>> provide the exact wording.
>>
>> Now I am starting to get a different message. Not always, but once in
>> awhile. The new message is this:
>>
>> Truncated! with a graphic line underneath.
>> This message exceeded the Maximum Message Size set in Account
>> Settings, so we have only downloaded the first few lines from the
>> mail server.
>>
>> Click here to download the rest of the message.
>>
>> All of this in a largish bold font. And notice the "we". Who is "we"?
>>
>
> Hm. I use Tbird (until last week version 2.something, now version 8.0); I
> don't see anything about max message size under Tools | Account Settings.
> Are you sure that's where you gave it this directive?
>
> I imagine that "we" is the Royal We. Everyone knows that software is
> superior to mere mortals.
>
> —Dodi
>
>
>
>

[Dodi Schultz]

John Barrs wrote:

> Latest TB (v8) Account Settings -- for each email account you have TB
> collecting there is a "Disk Space" setting . . .

Oh. Thanks, Johnny (that was my question, not Guerri's; I was looking for
something called "message size"). Found it. I left that unchecked. I have
plenty of disk space, and things I don't want get deleted pretty quickly. I
don't want to limit message size arbitrarily; if it's from a friend or
colleague, I'll take a look no matter its size.

—Dodi

[Guerri Stevens]

I see that Johnny has told you where the setting is located.

As far as specifying the largest size message to be downloaded: for me,
it is not so much a matter of the disk space that would be used as it is
the *time* required to retrieve the entire message. Out in the country
where I live there is no cable available. For a long time we had
internet service via satellite, which is faster than dial up, but not
nearly as fast as cable. We now have 4G most of the time, sometimes 3G
when 4G isn't working <g>, and occasionally nothing, but in the latter
case message size/download time really doesn't matter!

Also I have friends who sometimes send singing dancing E-cards, multiple
photos of their adorable children, grandchildren, and so forth.
Sometimes I would happily download the stuff immediately; other times I
prefer to wait.

In any event, my issue is not with the function itself, but with the
message that Thunderbird (2.0.something -eeek, really old) produces and
the fact that it is no longer consistent. I realize that you can't help
with this, but perhaps someone else can.

Guerri

Dodi Schultz wrote:
> Oh. Thanks, Johnny (that was my question, not Guerri's; I was looking
> for something called "message size"). Found it. I left that unchecked. I
> have plenty of disk space, and things I don't want get deleted pretty
> quickly. I don't want to limit message size arbitrarily; if it's from a
> friend or colleague, I'll take a look no matter its size.
>
> —Dodi

[Dodi Schultz]

On 12/24/2011 1:44 PM, Guerri Stevens wrote:

> As far as specifying the largest size message to be downloaded: for me,
> it is not so much a matter of the disk space that would be used as it is
> the *time* required to retrieve the entire message. Out in the country
> where I live there is no cable available. For a long time we had internet
> service via satellite, which is faster than dial up, but not nearly as
> fast as cable. We now have 4G most of the time, sometimes 3G when 4G
> isn't working <g>, and occasionally nothing . . .

Oh. Much different problem, clearly. (I have DSL.)

—Dodi