The problem now seems to be solved. Since the phantom message exceeded my
quota, I asked Satun to increase my quota. They gave me 100 mb. The email
below duely arrived. It had an email which I had sent 8/7/00 to a friend in
Christchurch that also had a 7.49 mb file attatchment.

David Dennis

From: Mail Administrator
Subject: Mail System Error - Returned Mail
This Message was undeliverable due to the following reason:

Your message is larger than the destination computer is willing to
accept, so it was returned. The error message below indicates the
size of your message and the maximum size allowed by the receiving
E-mail system. You may be able to split your message into several
smaller pieces and have them delivered separately.

Size of this message: 10474862 bytes
Server maximum size: 10000000 bytes

Please reply to Postmaster@chello.co.nz
if you feel this message to be in error.

----- Original Message -----
From: <rob.edkins@axon.co.nz>
To: <adsl@unixathome.org>
Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 7:40 AM
Subject: RE: chello fault

> From the info you've posted, this doesn't look like a bug.
>
> Looks to me like the 'problem' is that someone is repeatedly trying to
send
> you a mail attachment bigger than your 10Mb mailbox allowance. Find the
> perpetrator and take steps.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Dennis [mailto:dennis@chello.co.nz]
> Sent: Thursday, 14 September 2000 21:06
> To: adsl@unixathome.org
> Subject: chello fault
>
>
> Hi guys.
> I'm a chello user. I have had a fault with my email that Saturn and chello
> have been unable to resolve. I logged the fault with Saturn 15 July.
>
> The problem is that I receive chello admin messages about every 10 minutes
> while I'm running Outlook. When I don't run outlook about 20 of them build
> up and I get them in a rush of blood when I start Outlook. I have had
> hundreds and hundreds of them.
> Any ideas
> thanks
> David Dennis
>
> The message follows:-
>
> From: admin
> Subject: ATTENTION: Bounced Message Notification, Max Message Size!!
>
> A message was sent to you that was returned to the sender(bounced)
> because it would have caused your mailbox quota to be exceeded.
>
> The following is the reason that the message was over quota:
>
> Quota Type: Max Message Size
> Quota Available: 10000000
> Total Quota: 10000000
>
> The following is the information on the message that was bounced:
>
> Sender: <>
> Subject: [No Subject]
> Size: 10476506
> Message ID: 20000707085123.TQD374.nzmta00@nzmta00.chello.co.nz
> Date: Thu Sep 14 02:15:49 2000
>
> Reply-To: [No Reply-To]
>
> To fix this problem, delete some messages from your mailbox, and contact
> the sender to resend the message.
>
> If the size of the message is too big, contact the sender to reduce the
> size of the message and resend the message.
>
>
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