On 12/02/2021 11:21, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Fri, 12 Feb 2021 10:29:49 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 12/02/2021 08:50, Tim Lamb wrote:
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A brief education on email transport.

Start with it being inherently unreliable

It is remarkably reliable considering.

The only time I have had serious bother was way back when one over
zealous AV/netnanny product took exception to certain crude Anglosaxon 4
letter words appearing in MIME encoded binary content. The transition
threshold for unreliable transmission was about 500k (26^4).

Although you could sometimes just be unlucky with a shorter one.

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Regards,
Martin Brown