[Mesa-users] Having difficulty with RLOF (due to MB) initial starting age in LMXB

[Frank Timmes]

dear sanskar,

most major email providers (gmail, yahoo, icloud) cap total email size — including attachments at 20-25mb. microsoft 365, depending on admin configuration, can support up to 150mb. to account for encoding overhead, a 10–20 mb limit is considered the safe, practical maximum for ensuring delivery.

your ~29mb message to mesa-users easily exceeded these common limits, causing many bounce notifications to the mesa-user admins and a generally undeliverable message.

what you could, should, have done is provide a url to the niang et al article while also ensuring that sum of the mesa files were well under standard email limits.

fxt





> On Apr 30, 2026, at 12:28 PM, Sanskar via Mesa-users <mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to reproduce the results of the paper attached  with this email and I am having an error match in initial start age of First RLOF due to tau-boosted Magnetic  Braking(MB) — the MB is standard MESA code with extra terms containing convective turnover time . Can you help me identify the cause of this problem. I am using MESA version r25.12.1 and paper had used version 11701 and  also someone can check if whether the problem  is due to differences in MESA version. I have attached inlists, run_binary_extras.f90 and binary.data file below.<binary_history.data><run_binary_extras.f90><inlist_project><inlist1><AMXB_Paper.pdf>_______________________________________________
> mesa-users at lists.mesastar.org
> https://lists.mesastar.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-users
>