fetchmail size limits?

[R Kimber]

On Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:15:12 -0400
Rashkae wrote:

> 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.)

Many thanks.  That indeed did the trick.  Though I'm not clear why.

I run fetchmail, which retrieves the messages and passes them to
procmail, which delivers them to various local directories.  What role does
postfix play in this?

- Richard.
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