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 at 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. :-( Anne