Topic: Large attachment problems

[Jack McCauley]

I have setup a mailbox to receive art files from a customer.  The emails seem to fail with very large attachments (> 2MB).  Has anyone elso noticed this, and if so do you know of a fix.  The attachments I need to receive could be between 10 and 25 MB.

[Grub]

Why don't you use a php script for uploading files. You can use a password protected ibay for people who may upload files.

[Rob]

You are pobably using webmail? attachment size is limited in the /etc/php.ini file

www.myezserver.com/downloads/mitel/howto/webmail-attachment-size-howto.html

may help. but timeouts are a problem if you have a slow connection.

As far as i know there is no qmail / obtuse-smtp file size limit so if you use a non web mail client you should be ok.

[Greg O]

I use IMP webmail version 2.2.7 (will upgrade to 3.x when backup problems are sorted out and I've upgraded from SME 5.0 to 5.1.2).

I had problems with attachments not working at all after the php security fix. I've upgraded php on the server here to the following, as per howtos (to the letter):
php-4.1.1-2
e-smith-php-1.5.0-03

I've followed the howto:
http://www.myezserver.com/downloads/mitel/howto/webmail-attachment-size-howto.html

Now attachments work again, but are limited to about 600kilobytes! They take a looong time to send (not attach, send), about 12 minutes for a 600kilobyte file, which is uncannily long - that is, sending a message back to myself (the server hosts the mail) takes about 12 minutes to send.
Attaching a file larger than ~600kb and then sending it immediately (not after a 12+ minute wati) brings up a 'document contains no data' from netscape.

Hoping this is fixable (surely it is...)

Cheers,
Greg.