fetchmail size limits?

[Ric Moore]

On 03/19/2013 09:15 AM, Rashkae wrote:
> 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.)

Also, yahoo might have it's own size limits? But, since it is still in 
the mailbox, it hasn't been rejected outright. Ric



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