David Wright <deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote: > On Tue 10 May 2016 at 11:07:47 (-0400), Haines Brown wrote:
>> I tried to use mutt to send someone a zip file of about 50 Mb and got >> the error: "Error sending message, child exited 1 (). Could not send >> message." >> >> I assumed the attachment was too large and so went to >> /etc/exim4/conf.d/main/02*/ and altered the configuration to be: >> >> # Message size limit. The default (used when MESSAGE_SIZE_LIMIT >> # is unset) is 50 MB >> .ifdef MESSAGE_SIZE_LIMIT >> # message_size_limit = MESSAGE_SIZE_LIMIT # I commented this line >> message_size_limit = 200 MB # I added this line >> .endif >> >> I restarted exim, but it had no effect. > Isn't the Debian way to put > MESSAGE_SIZE_LIMIT=foo > into /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf and then run > # dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config No, that won't work. You cannot just put stuff into /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf and hope it will make it into the configuration. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.