Attachment size

[Julian Field]

At 12:52 20/03/2003, you wrote:
>Dear list members.
>All our mail goes to the mailscanner box and then after scanning is
>  forwarded back to the relevant Novell server internally or to the
>outside world. Internally we have set Mercury on the novell server to
>15mb. I know that some sites restrict incoming email attachment
>or 1 or 2 mb so large emails are rejected.
>However we have had complaints from some sites that large
>attachments, but below their limits, are not getting out to them nor
>can they send them to us. Internally we don't have a problem - I've
>just sent my self a 10mb attachment to check.

Just remember that the email encoding of the attachment involves expanding
it by about 30% or so to put it in the email. So if they try to send a file
that is 15Mb, it will be turned into a 20Mb (or so) message.

>Is there a setting in mailscanner

No.

>  or send mail that limits the size of
>an attachment.

Yes, there is a
O MaxMessageSize=
setting.

>  Does it/can it differentiate between on site and off
>site mail?
>
>
>
>
>Regards
>
>Howard Robinson
>(Senior Technical Development Officer)
>Harper Adams University College
>Edgmond
>Newport
>Shropshire
>TF10 8NB UK
>
>E-mail: hrobinson at harper-adams.ac.uk
>Tel.  : +44(0)1952 820280 Via switchboard
>       : +44(0)1952 815253 Direct line
>Fax.  : +44(0)1952 814783
>College Web site http://www.harper-adams.ac.uk

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Julian Field
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