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

Re: small emergency -- odd error?

Subject: Re: small emergency -- odd error?
From: Rafi Sadowsky (rafimeron.openu.ac.il)
Date: Sat Jan 08 2000 - 03:20:57 CST

On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Chris Cappuccio wrote:

> Yes, but after MIME encapsulation, 7MB becomes 10-12....
if BASE64 then 3 bytes become 4 characters(bytes) that is 7 MB -> 9.333MB

with Quoted-Printable it could be anything from original up to 3x the
original size ( depending on the amount non-ASCII,control & space
characters )

>
> 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.
it's probably trying to be "user-friendly"
MS IE5 "friendly" error messages - manage to make the source of the HTTP
error totally obscure ...
( & keep on at it even after turning off
        "show friendly HTTP error messages" under "advanced" :-( )
> |
> | 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.
> |
> |
> |
>
> ---
> Gates' Law: Every 18 months, the speed of software halves.
>
>
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