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. Anne
Anne Wilson wrote:> 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:<snip>> 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? ThanksI believe the following is about 30MB in postfix. mailbox_size_limit = 30000000 message_size_limit = 30000000 -- Sincerely, John Thomas
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 Craig
> 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? ThanksIf it's postfix, the parameter is message_size_limit -- the default is 10240000 (10MB) if it's not explicitly configured. This parameter goes in main.cf. M
> 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? Thankspostfix (main.cf): message_size_limit=<numberOfBytes> sendmail (sendmail.mc): define(`confMAX_MESSAGE_SIZE', `<numberOfBytes>') sendmail will need a 'make' to be run in the conf dir (probably /etc/mail) -- Spiro Harvey Knossos Networks Ltd 021-295-1923 www.knossos.net.nz
On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 5:06 PM, Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> 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 saysMuch as I dislike getting or giving "you asked for x, but here's how to do it with y" I'm going to do so here. Email is one of those things which is great for small files, and such, but large transfers can cause issues at pretty much every aspect of the trip. If you've already got a webserver running, add a password protected area for uploads. You can even set it up to allow webdav style transfers over https. This avoids any mail handling delays, lets both parties know it got there successfully, and keeps the clutter out of the mailserver. -- During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. George Orwell