On Thursday 03 July 2008 23:03:50 Scott Silva wrote: > on 7-3-2008 2:25 PM Anne Wilson spake the following: > > 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 > > Just set it large until she sends you the file, and then set it back. > How's that for blindfolded? :-) Too obvious - I'd never have seen that :-) Anne