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donald
Asked: 2011-06-08 07:20:24 +0800 CST

E-mails are being truncated by Gmail or Yahoo

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When I send an e-mail to a user, most of the times Yahoo user, and Yahoo returns a bounce to my Gmail account, that bounces comes most of the time truncated.

What's my problem here? Is in Gmail that truncates the messages, if yes, how do I fix it, or it is because of Yahoo?

thanks!

It shows like this in the bounce:

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-- Original message follows.

The original message is over 5K. Message truncated.\

Is Yahoo who does this?

email

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The reason that the message is truncated is because the server (in this case Yahoo's) doesn't see the point in sending back the whole message in a bounce message. The theory is that you have the whole message already if you sent it! It just gives you enough back so you can work out which message has bounced.

    If the address had existed then the message would not have been truncated and would be received in full by the recipient.

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  2. I have found a quick fix to this truncation problem. The message is truncated upon printout. 1. Display the gmail message. 2. On the upper right, click on the firefox symbol. 3. From the new window, click on the print symbol. 4. From the upper left "scale", choose 40%(50% gives truncation). 5. From the upper left, "print".

    Dick McMullen

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