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Date:      Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:51:55 -0300 (ART)
From:      Fernando Gleiser <fgleiser@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
To:        Fengping Li <fli@post.its.mcw.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: attachment-truncated(sendmail8.9.3 on freeBSD3.3)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008281546290.879-100000@cactus.fi.uba.ar>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.1000828132009.3096A-100000@post.its.mcw.edu>

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On Mon, 28 Aug 2000, Fengping Li wrote:

> Hi there,
> 
> I am using sendmail 8.9.3 on freeBSD3.3. When someone sends mail
> attachent, fatal error occurs as follows:
> 
> ------The following addresses had permanent fatal errors----
> <fli@mcw.edu>
> 
>   ----Transcript of session follows----
>    while talking to [10.0.0.2];
>   >>>MAIL From: <grandl@chaney.net> SIZE=6363781
>  <<< 552 Message size exceeds fixed maximium message size.
			^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The problem is not the attachement, the problem is the message's size.

If you need to receive messages which are that big, edit /etc/sendmail.cf
and change the line

O MaxMessageSize=1000000

to something that fills your needs, then kill -HUP sendmail.

>  554 <fli@mcw.edu>...Service unavailable
> 
> Does any friend over there teach me how to resolve this problem?
> 
> Thank you so much.
> 
> fli
> 
> 
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