[Techtalk] Courier Mail + Debian

[David Merrill]

On Sat, May 18, 2002 at 07:46:21PM -0500, ellie wrote:
> Greetings.  I have a mail server running Debian at work; it uses Courier for IMAP, POP3, and ESMTP.  Everything is working nicely, and I am very happy with Courier.  Recently, however, one of my users tried to send 24 MB of attachments to me.  She was unable to do so, and when I tried to replicate the problem using my own account, I was unable to send a 10 MB attachment.  Appearing in /var/log/mail.err was this error message:
> 
> 523 Message length exceeds administrative limit
> 
> I looked this up on Google and found only a few related pages on this problem.  What I found was that people had gotten around this size limit by specifiying the limit at the time that they compiled Courier.  I installed Courier from a Debian package though, so I'm not sure how to redefine the limit at this point on my mail server.  Courier has a lot of documentation, and I'm not always certain where to look.  I'm hoping someone will have experienced something similar and will know of a possible solution.  Thanks in advance to anyone who might have an answer to this problem!

I think you need to look at your MTA's configuration, not Courier's.
I'd need to know your MTA to know how to advise you to fix it, though.

HTH,

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