Changing attachment's max size

[amador]

Hi:
I have a DA running correctly on Fedora 3, but I unknow how change the mail server configuration for increase the size of attachments.
Anybody knows where is the configuration file?
Thanks in advance.

 

[maryp]

I need to find out the answer to this as well.
I have some users who would like to send/receive larger file attachments than what is allowed now.
Any help appreciated.

 

[rohit]

u might need to check /etc/exim.conf (if you are running exim)

exim is installed as a default MTA on the hosting servers

 

[maryp]

Thanks .. I found another post that seemed to point in that direction.
I changed:
"message_size_limit"
Is that the correct thing to change?

And it says that you should
"HUP the Exim daemon"
???
I "restarted" Exim on the server.. is that what the above means..or do I need to do something else?

Thanks for the help

 

[nobaloney]

Yes.

Yes.



Jeff

 

[maryp]

Ok.. the client who was having problems.. sent me this today..

I’ve tried to send small one page word docs (maybe 100 KB) up to huge 1MB docs. Sometimes my mail bounces with no attachment at all. I tried to FW you an example of a returned message and it got returned. Twice. This email situation is making me nuts. I’m not getting mail and my mail isn’t going through. I’m getting one Mail Server message for a note I’ve been trying to send since Monday morning. It keeps coming back as undeliverable, but still sitting on the server.

Now.. she's hard to get a hold of.. this is a reply to a note BEFORE I made the changes in increased file size above.. and I do not know if she's tried to send another SINCE the change.

I just wanted to check on a few things.. pardon my ignorance..but as I mentioned.. I changed the allowed size from "20M" to "50M"

question: Is the "M" ..MB ??

I've had my own server (this one is a different one that I'm running for someone else) ..for about 2 1/2 yrs.. and didn't even change the email set up on mine and have never had any problems with mail. I'm baffled as to what the problem is here.

My only other thought is.. the domains on this server were recently moved from another "host". I do not think that the domains have been totally removed from the old server yet because we were having problems with one. That problem has been resolved and they should all be removed soon.
I seem to notice that the emails that were present on the old server .. same "[email protected]" .. are the ones that seemed to have more problems with missing mail. I set an email up for myself..that had never been on the old server..and I don't see any problems.
Does this make sense? Could that be part of the problem?

Any suggestions appreciated!