Re: [Exim] Incoming Message Size

I have a firewall proxy, that is the machine.

I don't have an SMTP banner defined either, at least that I am aware of. I
set all of this up myself and don't remember any smtp_banner setting.

At 02:57 PM 4/14/2004, Benjamin Ritcey wrote:
>On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 17:50, Alex Flores wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have set the message_size_limit to 16M. I tried a test but still not
> > working.
> >
>
>Are you positive that it's actually Exim that's running on that
>machine? By any chance is there a firewall with an SMTP proxy in front
>of it?
>
>Do you have 'smtp_banner = "SMTP service ready"' set in your
>configuration? If not, you're looking at the wrong configuration; the
>machine in question resolves as 64.3.83.254. Either that's the wrong
>machine, or Exim is not really running, or you may have a firewall
>proxy.
>
>-b
>
>
> > At 02:44 PM 4/14/2004, Benjamin Ritcey wrote:
> > >On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 17:40, Alex Flores wrote:
> > > > Thanks for the reply. I don't know anything about SMTP/ESMTP...
> > > >
> > > > Perhaps advertising ESMTP is part of my problem? The server
> > > ...snip...
> > > > coming from my outgoing (ISP) server and not even reaching my server?
> > > >
> > > > How would I go about changing the 3MB limit?
> > >
> > >In looking around, it looks like advertising ESMTP is a suggestion, not
> > >a requirement (but apparently some MTAs won't try EHLO if it doesn't see
> > >ESMTP in the banner). That said, I don't think that's your problem.
> > >
> > >In the exim.conf for incoming1.fijiescapes.com, look for
> > >'message_size_limit' and set it higher.
> > >
> > >-b
> >
> >