Re: Message size rejected

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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.  :-(
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get 'properties' (usually a right click on the file) of the file she's
attaching

Craig

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