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? -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 258 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080703/9df0cde9/attachment-0005.sig>