I may be way off on this, but it appears you are getting the information to be mailed through some sort of web form using CGI.pm.

It is possible the message body portion could be coming in *incomplete* and that could be messing up the works. I would try it temporarily assigning your body variable to some text of about the same size, but not brought in from a webform.

Perhaps reading it from a file or just setting it directly in the script to try it out.

The reason why I mention this is I had a similar problem (putting text into a database) where it blew up when the amount of input was around 45K.

There are two places that would be (or could be) limiting the amount of data you can post. One is the webserver itself, and where that setting might be, and whether or not it can be adjusted depends on the webserver itself. The other is in the $CGI::POST_MAX setting of CGI.pm for which you might find useful information here

EEjack

In reply to Re: Net::SMTP - Length limitation. by eejack
in thread Net::SMTP - Length limitation. by the_0ne

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