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Re: small emergency -- odd error?

Subject: Re: small emergency -- odd error?
From: Chris Cappuccio (chrisdqc.org)
Date: Fri Jan 07 2000 - 17:03:00 CST

You need to raise the limit on the max file size in the postfix config from
the log output below.

Outlook is terrible. It gives you the most worhless error message and makes
them appear to the untrained user as if they are from the mail server.

On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Adam Levin wrote:

 |
 | I hate to send mail this early in my searching for an answer, but this has
 | been tagged urgent by a VP here, and you all know what that means.
 |
 | He's trying to send out a message to about ten people. It's got a 7MB
 | MS PowerPoint attachment.
 |
 | He gets a message back that says this:
 |
 | From: System Administrator
 | Sent: Friday, January 07, 2000 5:17 PM
 | Subject: Undeliverable: updated road show presentation
 | Your message did not reach some or all of the intended recipients.
 |
 | Subject: updated road show presentation
 | Sent: 1/7/00 5:16 PM
 |
 | The following recipient(s) could not be reached:
 |
 | 'addressimportantplace.com' on 1/7/00 5:17 PM
 | No transport provider was available for delivery to this
 | recipient.
 | ...
 | (There's one message for each recipient, and the To: and CC: lines were
 | snipped for confidentiality.)
 |
 | When the VP tries to send the message, I don't see anything go out to
 | importantplace.com, but I do see a connection from his PC to the mail
 | server (Sun Enterprise E250 running Solaris 2.6 and Postfix
 | 19990906-pl09). I see this in the log:
 | Jan 7 17:36:43 washington.hq.audible.com postfix/cleanup[7029]: warning:
 | AEC411
 | 0905: queue file size limit exceeded
 | Jan 7 17:36:43 washington.hq.audible.com postfix/cleanup[7029]: warning:
 | AEC411
 | 0905: skipping further client input
 |
 | Here's a postconf -n:
 | command_directory = /usr/local/postfix/sbin
 | daemon_directory = /usr/local/postfix/libexec
 | debug_peer_level = 2
 | default_destination_concurrency_limit = 10
 | default_privs = nobody
 | default_transport = smtp
 | local_destination_concurrency_limit = 2
 | mail_owner = postfix
 | mail_spool_directory = /var/mail
 | mydestination = /etc/postfix/mydestinations
 | mydomain = audible.com
 | myhostname = mailbox.audible.com
 | mynetworks = 207.159.120.0/24, 207.159.89.128/25, 192.215.168.96/27,
 | 192.215.168.128/27, 192.215.168.160/30, 208.47.215.0/24, 208.45.131.174/32,
 | 209.3.125.64/27, 24.11.77.81/32
 | myorigin = $mydomain
 | program_directory = /usr/local/postfix/
 | queue_directory = /var/spool/postfix
 | relay_domains = $mydestination, dbm:/etc/postfix/popclients
 | smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name
 | smtpd_recipient_limit = 10000
 | transport_maps = dbm:/etc/postfix/transport
 |
 | I'm using the default message size limit, 10MB. Is that the same as the
 | queue file size limit, or is there something else that needs tweaking?
 |
 | Many thanks,
 | -Adam
 |
 | Adam Levin, Senior Unix Systems Administrator | http://www.audible.com/
 | Audible, Inc. The man gave a shrug which indicated that although
 | Wayne, NJ, USA the world did indeed have many problems, this
 | 973-890-4070 x297 was one of them that was not his.
 |
 |
 | 

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