Topic: Attachment Size limit - a definitive answer?

[Gary]

Scoured the forums for a solution - the question has been asked many times but never a solution that works.

I use SME5.6 - users on the network despite being told otherwise are sending emails with attachments as large as 128MB's and it's driving me crazy.

Followed the
/sbin/e-smith/config setprop smtpfront-qmail MaxMessageSize 10M
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event email-update

That just stops all email going out regardless of any attachment. If I change the figure to say 5000 it allows email to go out bon with any attachement whatsoever - surely there is a solution to what must be a very common requirement?

[byte]

Hi,

I asked the oringal question few months ago, I found setting the limit to 10M was not good enough as you have to take into consideration the message size as well as the attachment.

I use 20M as my limit which allows a 7M file and a message to get through.

Another note I think the format 10M is wrong as I had the very same problem I set to 10000M and worked great.

Hope this helps you!

Byte

[Gary]

Thanks for the reply - tried setting those parameters - still the same - will not let an attachment go through!

Weird

[byte]

Have you checked the smtp-qmail log under /var/log? What does that say? When I was testing this I watched the logs as i sent the message!

It might be that your limit is not set high enough?

HTH

Byte

[matt]

I had also been having some problems emailing large atachments so I did as suggested in this thread and increased the attachment limit to 10000M, but now incoming messages are being rejected and I cannot send outgoing messages at all with attchments.

HELP, I wish I had just left things alone, this is our main server, not a test one can anyone tell me how to put things back the way they were.  

Cheers Matt

[byte]

Matt,

First you shoulda tried a test machine    with the commands or anything

Any way this command should sort it...

/sbin/e-smith/config setprop smtpfront-qmail MaxMessageSize 5000000
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event email-update

HTH

Byte

[Matt]

Cheers Byte

It seems to have done the trick, I have tried sending an email with attachment and it worked.  I must stop fiddleing with the working server and setup a test.  

Matt

[raem]

I did a search on MaxMessageSize and found:

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=19429.msg76955#msg76955

and this

http://forums.contribs.org/index.php?topic=19429.msg76955#msg76955

Do
/sbin/e-smith/db configuration setprop smtpfront-qmail MaxMessageSize 11000000

/sbin/e-smith/signal-event email-update
ie use 11000000
rather than
11M

You should make your size setting slightly larger than the attachment size limit required.

Regs
Ray