FAQ: 5Mb Max Email Size For BIS – Message Truncated Due To Size Error

I know I have received the “Message truncated due to size” error before on my BlackBerry and was always wondering what it meant. Turns out that according to this knowledgebase article there is a max email size of 8Mb on BIS. Due to the Base64 encoding overhead that 8MB figure translates into about a 5Mb max on emails on your BlackBerry.

Another mystery solved…