Topic: Mail attachment limit - different between 6 and 7?

[sgt-spam]

Just looking for confirmation on this...

One of my more ... special ... users has been complaining about mail attachments, what used to work, and what's not working.

On SME 6, IIRC, there was no indicator that the attachment was too large for qmail, and the message was just dropped.

On SME 7, there's a nifty message that tells the user their message failed because it was too big.

I'm fine with that.  I've also added ~ 30% to the file limit to account for MIME encoding.  This way when my users see 5.5MB in Explorer or Outlook, the message won't fail.

My confusion is whether internal messages (over the limit) were blocked in SME 6.  They are clearly blocked in SME 7.


Thanks.

[byte]

On SME 6, IIRC, there was no indicator that the attachment was too large for qmail, and the message was just dropped.

There would have been a returned message but SME Server 6 didn't have a qmail size by default.

On SME 7, there's a nifty message that tells the user their message failed because it was too big.

On SME Server 7.x there is a default 15MB qmail size limit, if you wish to change have a looke at

http://wiki.contribs.org/Email#Set_max_email_size

My confusion is whether internal messages (over the limit) were blocked in SME 6.  They are clearly blocked in SME 7.

In SME 6 you could send 30MB internal no problem, but SME Server 7.x would not allow that as above default of 15MB limit therefore blocking.

HTH

[sgt-spam]

Thanks for taking the time to answer my question.