Topic: email attachement problem

[Agent86]

Now with sending to webmail to test the attachment size topic ?

I add an attachment of 1.rar file and 1.zip file
Then click on update button, then click send message.

A popup screen comes up and says:
You have chosen to open compose.php
from http://foolishlys.com what should the webbrowser to with this file
  Open with ( browse)
  save to disk
  do this automatically with files like this from now on.

I don't know why this would popup,

This seems to be a standard firefox message when opening files I've downloaded or something but this is now getting ridiculous LOL

Anyhow I can't test my webmail to see if the large attachment  changes are working ?

I don't recall getting this popup message before when sending attachments ? with webmail

I believe before it just gave me a blank page when sending attachements that are too large ?

Anyhow now what ?

[Agent86]

I want to send someone a cad drawing or some script to have work done on it. I can't even send it. The one script I need someone to work on for me is like 25megs unzipped and I can't send it.

I do not want any limits on my sending capacity or at least I want much much higher limits ?

What you should remember is that the email protocol is not designed for transferring huge files as most of the servers in the world have a limit for example I know in the dial up days the limit used to be 2MB these days the general rule is for these days I would say 10/15MB even that is still big in email terms.

Yep I think your right, but what to do in the case of sending a large set of cad drawings ? like 40 meg. ? or so isn't it good to have at least some type of account to send this or should I post to ibay and send the link or something.
But basically this seems to be an ongoing problem I'm have work done on a script or things worked on and I can't send a zip file or s series of a few files cause I have limitations.
I do know that when sending large files to my comcast account they were rejected due to being too large.
so perhaps I should change the limits back to defaults or something

And with my webmail popup effect that now occurs I'm not sure what to do now or how to work around that too.

Thanks
Steve

[byte]

Yep I think your right, but what to do in the case of sending a large set of cad drawings ? like 40 meg. ? or so isn't it good to have at least some type of account to send this or should I post to ibay and send the link or something.

I setup a ftp location for our CAD team to transfer drawings, or depending if they need to edit them I would get them to pdf them then send via email.

[william_syd]

login as root:
config setprop php MemoryLimit nnnn
config setprop php PostMaxSize mmmm
config setprop php UploadMaxFilesize pppp
expand-template /etc/php.ini
/etc/rc7.d/S86httpd-e-smith restart

example:
[root@myserver ~]# config setprop php MemoryLimit 32M
[root@myserver ~]# config setprop php max_execution_time 300
[root@myserver ~]# config setprop php upload_max_filesize 32M
[root@myserver ~]# config setprop php post_max_size 32M
[root@myserver ~]# expand-template /etc/php.ini
[root@myserver ~]# /etc/rc7.d/S86httpd-e-smith restart

From the zend/php developer manual.

post_max_size  integer

    Sets max size of post data allowed. This setting also affects file upload. To upload large files, this value must be larger than upload_max_filesize.

    If memory limit is enabled by your configure script, memory_limit also affects file uploading. Generally speaking, memory_limit should be larger than post_max_size.

http://devzone.zend.com/manual/view/page/

Default SME values are..

MemoryLimit 32M
PostMaxSize 20M
UploadMaxFilesize 10M
MaxExecutionTime 30

MaxMessageSize 15000000

Note also there is no underscore in these php properties used in the configuration db .

To correct your example..

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[root@myserver ~]# config delprop php MemoryLimit
[root@myserver ~]# config delprop php max_execution_time
[root@myserver ~]# config delprop php upload_max_filesize
[root@myserver ~]# config delprop php post_max_size

Then (my recommendation)..

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[root@myserver ~]# config setprop php MemoryLimit 128M
[root@myserver ~]# config setprop php PostMaxSize 100M
[root@myserver ~]# config setprop php UploadMaxFilesize 50M
[root@myserver ~]# config setprop php MaxExecutionTime 600
[root@myserver ~]# expand-template /etc/php.ini
[root@myserver ~]# /etc/rc7.d/S86httpd-e-smith restart

[Agent86]

No underscore ? got it

Thanks, I'm glad I didn't break anything

Please advise further on this subject

[william_syd]

Please advise further on this subject

I was in the middle of an edit when you posted. Please see my post above.

[Agent86]

So will these limits only effect the email?
What about the file storage limits for the file manager, which is one of the RPM's for Gollem I've installed ?

Any concerns here ?

[william_syd]

So will these limits only effect the email?
What about the file storage limits for the file manager, which is one of the RPM's for Gollem I've installed ?

Any concerns here ?

I don't have the Gollem RPM installed.

You question is best answered by mrjhb3 the resident Horde guru.

[Agent86]

Thanks

[CharlieBrady]

Now with sending to webmail to test the attachment size topic ?

I don't understand what you are saying here. That doesn't seem to be a valid English question to me.

I add an attachment of 1.rar file and 1.zip file
Then click on update button, then click send message.

A popup screen comes up and says:
You have chosen to open compose.php
from http://foolishylys.com what should the webbrowser to with this file
  Open with ( browse)
  save to disk
  do this automatically with files like this from now on.

I don't know why this would popup,

I don't know either. It shouldn't. Have you reported this problem via the Bug Tracker?

[Agent86]

I was typing too fast sorry about that.

I meant I was going to test sending attachements with webmail as oppose to sending with my client to test things out some more.

And basically I've got this popup screen.

I'll test a few more times now that I've made a few changes with those commands you gave me for file sizes and things.

Thanks this has really helped me a lot I was starting to get a little discouraged with my SME server trying to make it due the things I want it to ?

Thanks again.

[CharlieBrady]

And basically I've got this popup screen.

...

Have you reported the problem via the Bug Tracker?

[Agent86]

Hi and thanks

I did not get this screen from work, but only from home on the LAN

I did not report the bug until I can be sure that it is a bug and not some setting on my workstation, but I will

Thanks

[Agent86]

Hi

FYI after restarting the workstation the popup window that was appearing is not appearing now.

Must have just been a fluke
Thanks

[del]

Hi Agent86,

How about the webshare contrib? With this you could upload the 40mb file, send a link and the other person (using a user name and password) can download it, edit it and then upload it and email you that it is finished
That's what I do.

Regards,
Del