On Thursday 03 July 2008 22:33:34 Craig White wrote:
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 22:25 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 03 July 2008 22:12:10 Craig White wrote:
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 22:06 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
My daughter needs to send me a large file. It appears that it is getting through my ISP, but being rejected on my CentOS mail server. The message she's getting says
A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
anne@localhost SMTP error: 552 5.3.4 Message size exceeds fixed limit Reporting-MTA: dns; borg2.lydgate.lan
I presume that this is a configurable limit, but I'm not sure where to look. Since it says MTA I'm thinking that it's probably postfix. Can someone please tell me what parameter I'm looking for? Thanks
I have reams of documentation printed out. I'll start wading through that tomorrow, but time is of the essence with this one.
# grep size_limit /etc/postfix/main.cf message_size_limit = 2560000000 mailbox_size_limit = 5120000000
So 'size_limit' is what I'm looking for. Thanks everyone. Now comes the really hard bit. I have to tell her, blindfolded, how to tell the size of the message she is sending. She uses btinternet's yahoo mailer, and I haven't a clue what she can see there. :-(
get 'properties' (usually a right click on the file) of the file she's attaching
I've already told her that I'll settle for that, but I'll have to guess the 'overheads'. I know that to attach a 50k file, for instance, raises the size of the message by a lot more than 50k.
Anne