Anyway the majority of smtp servers around the world accept email from
10 to 20MB. You 16GB email wont go far. It will be refused by everyone.
-fred-
On Mar 28, 2008, at 3:14 AM, Gregory Machin wrote:
> I'll have a dig thought the logs and find who is sending 16GB emails
> send them a snotty email then cap our max accept to 250Mb ... I see no
> need in south africa to waist resources on sending emails larger ..
>
> Thanks
>
> W B Hacker wrote:
>> Gregory Machin wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, how do I fix this the error below .. I'm getting it
>>> occasionally and
>>> would like to resolve it .. is it exim that is complaining about
>>> the "absolute value of integer "16777215K" is too large
>>> (overflow)" or
>>> mysql ?
>>>
>>>
>>> 2008-03-28 07:18:11 [18245] failed to expand condition "${if
>>>> {$message_size}{${lookup mysql{select users.maxmsgsize from
>>> users,domains where localpart = '${quote_mysql:$local_part}' and
>>> domain
>>> = '${quote_mysql:$domain}' and users.maxmsgsize > 0 and
>>> users.domain_id=domains.domain_id }{${value}K}fail}} {yes}{no}}" for
>>> ditch_maxmsgsize router: absolute value of integer "16777215K" is
>>> too
>>> large (overflow)
>>> 2008-03-28 07:18:23 [18262] 1Jf6yi-0004kH-EP failed to expand
>>> condition
>>> "${if >{$message_size}{${lookup mysql{select users.maxmsgsize from
>>> users,domains where localpart = '${quote_mysql:$local_part}' and
>>> domain
>>> = '${quote_mysql:$domain}' and users.maxmsgsize > 0 and
>>> users.domain_id=domains.domain_id }{${value}K}fail}} {yes}{no}}" for
>>> ditch_maxmsgsize router: absolute value of integer "16777215K" is
>>> too
>>> large (overflow)
>>>
>>> thanks
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Not sure it matters (which is complaining).
>>
>> Seems *daft* to allow 16GB max message sizes.... they'll time-out
>> unless
>> you have GigE end-to-end AND a fast server & fs.
>>
>> Why not set a more realistic limit? Our largest - custom commercial
>> installations only - is 800 MB - just over one CD's worth.
>>
>> Anything larger needs an scp/sftp account.
>>
>> Or FedEx/DHL/TNT et al...
>>
>> YMMV,
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>
>
>
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