fetchmail size limits?

[Rashkae]

On 03/19/2013 08:48 AM, R Kimber wrote:
> Someone has sent me an email message with an attachment that is 9.5MB in
> size. I'm using fetchmail to download mail from my ISP's POP3 mail server
> (BT Yahoo).  All my normal mail is downloaded fine, but the email with the
> attachment just sits in the inbox on the mail server.  I haven't explicitly
> set any limits on message size at my end, and fetchmail is asked to
> "fetchall" in the rc file. Is there some hidden message size limit for
> fetchmail?
>

Not fetchmail, your local MTA, which is probably postfix.  Postfix 
default message size limit is 5MB (way too small by today's standards.)

You need to edit /etc/postfix/main.cf and add message_size_limit=

For example, mine is set at message_size_limit=102400000 for close to 
100MB  (Looking at that now, I must have thought myself clever while 
forgetting to multiply the KB by 1024 bytes,,, but, err, whatever.)