Javax.mail behaving strangely with large attachments

My application seems to have trouble sending large attachments on some POP3 and IMAP servers that appear to accept the same attachments from Outlook or Outlook express. Also some Exchange servers work and others do not. The error is "message is too big and cannot be appended". Is there anyone who might be able to point me to some docs that might help figure this out?
Thanks,
Mike Bergstrom
IBM

Hi,
Here is the exception....it does seem to be coming from the SMTP server:
154[11/5/04 10:12:47:324 EST] 5ce0cea8 SystemErr R javax.mail.MessagingException: A4 NO This message is too big and can not be appended.;
nested exception is:
com.sun.mail.iap.CommandFailedException: A4 NO This message is too big and can not be appended.
[11/5/04 10:12:47:324 EST] 5ce0cea8 SystemErr R at com.sun.mail.imap.IMAPFolder.appendMessages(IMAPFolder.java:1154)

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