RE: [cobalt-users] attachment limit

["William J.A. Brillinger" <billy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:49 PM 18/09/02 -0400, you wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: P.V.Anthony
> Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 12:36 PM
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [cobalt-users] attachment limit
>
>
> Dear Cobalt users,
>
> Is there an attachment limit to the mailscanner?
>
> I have been trying to send an email attachment of 10mb and I get an error.
>
> I am just wondering if is is because of some setting I may have set.
>
> I have set the cobalt to 50 mb in the mail server parameter.
>
> Please help if you have the time.
>
> This is the error I get
>
> >    ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> > <xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >     (reason: 552 5.2.3 <xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>... Message size exceeds
> fixed
> maximum message size (5242880))
> >
> >    ----- Transcript of session follows -----
> > ... while talking to mail.xxxxxxxx.com.sg.:
> > >>> MAIL From:<xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> SIZE=14092681
> > <<< 552 5.2.3 <xxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>... MeO MaxMessageSize=ssage size
> exceeds fixed
> maximum
> message size (5242880)
> > 554 5.0.0 Service unavailable
> >
> -------------------
>
> You may have thought you set the maximum message size to 50Meg but
> accoringing to the errors generated by your SMTP, it's set at 5Meg.
> After you do the change through the admin GUI use vi or pico to
> look at /etc/sendmail.cf. Scan for the item: O MaxMessageSize=

if xxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx is the destination server, I'd say you exceeded 
their max message size, not yours.

Try emailing the file to yourself.

- Bill




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