On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Piete Brooks wrote:
> >> We limit message size to 4 Mbytes. Although its an arbitary figure, its
> >> probably best to use ftp for files bigger that this.
> > Bear in mind that although setting message_size_limit in Exim will stop the
> > input/<msgid>-D files getting (much) bigger than that, the accepting process
> > still has to suck the remainder across the wire before giving a 552 error,
>
> Sounds like you want exim to talk ESMTP !
Don't you mean "understand ESMTP"? It does. Not very much, but it does
understand the SIZE option on MAIL FROM. Doesn't help much if the far
end doesn't talk ESMTP. :-(
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