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Postfix Archives: Re: small emergency -- odd error?

Re: small emergency -- odd error?

Subject: Re: small emergency -- odd error?
From: Chris Cappuccio (chrisdqc.org)
Date: Fri Jan 07 2000 - 17:37:48 CST

Yes, but after MIME encapsulation, 7MB becomes 10-12....

On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Adam Levin wrote:

 | On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Chris Cappuccio wrote:
 | > You need to raise the limit on the max file size in the postfix config from
 | > the log output below.
 |
 | That's what I figured, but my size limit is 10MB and this thing is 7MB.
 | Still, I upped the limit to 100MB temporarily, and wouldn't you know it
 | went (naturally, it was denied by the other mail server as too big, but at
 | least that's in the logs and out of my hands now).
 |
 | By the way, the VP sent the mail to me just now. Pine and Outlook both
 | report 7.8MB for the attachment, but when I save it, Pine says "10MB
 | written":
 |
 | -rw-rw-r-- 1 alevin sysadmin 7622144 Jan 7 18:16 Roadshow00update1.ppt
 |
 | Is there some way for the file sizes to be *that* different. Even if the
 | attachment is smaller than the message as a whole, there can't be 2.5MB of
 | extra stuff in the message. Any ideas why it'd be rejected? What
 | criteria does Postfix use to test the message size? Actual bytes?
 |
 | > 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.
 |
 | Naturally. I guess the server is rejecting the message, but Outlook is
 | trying to tell me why, and failing.
 |
 | Thanks very much for the quick help -- I'm glad it was something simple.
 |
 | -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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