On 03/28/2012 04:44 PM, James B. Byrne wrote:

CentOS-6.2

I am confused. I need to accept messages somewhat larger than the default 10M allowed by Postfix. However, changing the message_size_limit in /etc/postfix/main.cf is having no effect.

Squirrelmail is configured to accept and transmit messages up to 24M and this identical configuration is working on a Sendmail installation. So the problem appears to me to be strictly at Postfix matter.

# grep message_size_limit /etc/postfix/* /etc/postfix/main.cf:message_size_limit = 20480000

# postfix reload postfix/postfix-script: refreshing the Postfix mail system

# postconf -n | grep size_limit message_size_limit = 20480000

smtp message generated to squirrelmail client

Message not sent. Server replied:

 Requested mail action aborted: exceeding storage

allocation 552 5.2.3 Message exceeds maximum fixed size (12000000)

What is going on? Why am I unable to have configured limit of 20M take effect?

I had a same problem but i am using zimbra firstly i did in zimbra sudo su - zimbra #(or just su - zimbra) zmlocalconfig -e imap_max_request_size=102400000 zmprov mcf zimbraMtaMaxMessageSize 102400000 zmmailboxdctl restart

and then i changed main.cf of postfix like you , but opposite host of user domain postfix did not accept mail because of 10mb limit. Conclusion be sure which postfix returned this error to you (your server, or from other side) and be sure your mail program (thunderbird, evolution etc.) has not limit of 10 mb

and also you must add uploaded file size settings in main.cf (if you attach a file)

and be sure service has been restarted

regards