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["Stefan Hornburg (Racke)" <address@concealed>]

On 20/09/2021 23:41, Widerski, Betty wrote:
> Hi –
>
> We are POCing a 6.2 installation on RH Linux with the idea of replacing our 
> Majordomo server. I am trying to find the appropriate max_size number to 
> allow posts to be sized up to about 10MB including binary attachments. I am 
> aware that the binary-to-mime conversion increases the post size. With 
> Majordomo I determined that setting its maxlength to 13900000 resulted in 
> acceptance of about 10MB original sized PDFs etc.
>
> We originally had Sympa max_size = 10485760  - this has allowed posts of 
> about 6.2MB PDFs
>
> I’ve now upped max_size to 20971520 – this is still insufficient to allow an 
> 8MB PDF.
>
> I first tried changing the max_size in a specific list send/receive config, 
> then changed it globally in sympa.conf and restarted sympa and wwsympa and 
> teted a list getting the default max_size.
>
> Do you allow posts of 10MB, and if so what is your max_size?

Hello Betty,

you are sure that is rejected by Sympa? It could be the mailserver in front 
of Sympa.

The encoding shouldn't increase the size that much.

Regards
        Racke

> Thanks
>
> Betty
>
> Betty Widerski
>
> Enterprise Systems & Services – HBS Information Technology
>
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