I set that variable - I DO want to restrict the size of incoming
messages - my question is whether my server needs to receive 6000000
bytes of the message before saying "whoa that's too big!" and write
the log lines I included in the original post - or is that line a
result of sendmail handshaking and deciding the message was too big
before starting to receive it...
my guess at the moment is that sendmail needs to receive the limit
amount before rejecting with the message in the log file... it seems
that when I try to send too large a message from one server to
another as a test the message gets rejected with no mention in the
logs...
hmm?
At 3:02 AM -0500 16/9/00, Eddie Strohmier wrote:
>The /etc/sendmail.cf file has MaxMessageSize= variable but is commented out
>by default. Is it possible that someone has set this variable to 6000000 and
>forgot about it?
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dan Horth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Friday, September 15, 2000 8:34 PM
>Subject: Sendmail rejecting large messages issue
>
> > Anyway - since we've started doing mail relaying for a client we've
>> noticed a few of these "message rejected because it is too big"
>> messages from sendmail...
>>
>> Sep 16 02:41:07 server sendmail[4577]: AAA04577: message size
>> (7376264) exceeds maximum (6000000)
>>
>> I was just wondering if someone could clarify as to whether sendmail
>> would have received 6000000 bytes of the message before realising it
>> was too big and rejecting it... or would it have rejected it before
> > any data was transferred?
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