After a 2018 discussion with a “zorgkantoor” (Dutch for office that arranges for special long term health care needs, successor of AWBZ) about their very low (10 megabyte) SMTP message size limit – even though they expect scanned PDF documents.
Their web-care team posed this limit as normal, so I made a list of limits in their peer group, common world-wide and well-ranked Dutch internet providers.
My plan is to check the progression of these limits over time.
Note these are the bruto message sizes including encoded attachments. Since encoding in [WayBack] MIME Base64 – Wikipedia has a overhead of at least 37% (encoded size is at least 1.37 the original size), the unencoded maximum size is less than 73% of what is listed below.
References:
- [WayBack] Zorgverzekeraars Nederland – ZorgkantorenOud
- [WayBack] De beste alles-in-1-provider | Consumentenbond
- [WayBack] Zorg en Zekerheid on Twitter: “Goedemorgen Jeroen, 10MB is bij de meeste providers het maximum. Ook wij hanteren deze standaard. Als je meer data toe wil/moet sturen, zal je dit in meerdere e-mails moeten doen. ^Nils”
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