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["Widerski, Betty" <address@concealed>]

Good suggestion! Turns out the default Postfix config was 10MB, so will 
change that.

-----Original Message-----
From: address@concealed 
<address@concealed> On Behalf Of Stefan Hornburg (Racke)
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2021 9:41 AM
To: address@concealed
Subject: Re: [sympa-users] Post size increase

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
> 
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