From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 13 15:20:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA11806 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 15:20:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cc1.ccms.net (ccms.net [204.96.187.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA11798 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 15:20:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aauu@ccms.net) Received: from ccms.net (ppp37.ccms.net [204.181.93.47]) by cc1.ccms.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA17306; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 17:26:20 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <35FC453C.560D54B8@ccms.net> Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 17:20:44 -0500 From: Alan Weber Organization: Personal X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b1 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gary Kline , "questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: sendmail: max message size References: <199809130130.SAA29625@athena.tera.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You will have problems sending files over the internet if the file is much larger than one meg. A lot of SMTP servers will refuse to forward arbitrarily large email messages (a result of people emailing cdroms). If you need to send larger files, then another method such as FTP will prove to be more reliable. Gary Kline wrote: > After a lot of experimentation, I have both of my > privately networked systems sending|receiving mail. > > Now I've bumped into another issue: increasing the > MaxMessageSize to some arbitrarily large size, say > 5MB. > > I change the Option in /etc/sendmail.cf, but run into > an SMTP limit. How to increase this limit? Anybody > know? > > thanks, > > gary kline > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- When I was a kid I had to rub sticks together to multiply and divide numbers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message