Just what I was looking for in what was the causing the bounced messages due to storage allocation size (attachment size).
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Browse All TopicsGetting the following bounce back. The mail.plateaugsm.com domain is using a internal Qmail server as a relay that then points to the sub domains which have servers for specific tasks. In this case the target domain mmsx.plateaugsm.com is also running a qmail server to store user files. The max limit per user is 2.5 MB. If the message is 1.5 MB or greater it bounces back with this error message. The target Qmail server trans-codes it down to 300k or lower once it hits the mmsx.plateaugsm.com Qmail server.
Is there a setting in Qmail that allows me to tweak the storage size or is there another reason why this bounce back is being shown?
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by: ravenplPosted on 2009-10-29 at 03:07:08ID: 25691994
the configuration You asking is in [qmail installation]/control/data bytes file
Note, that attachments are base64 encoded, that is why qmail bounces with 2MB size while You are sending 1.5MB only(base64 looses 2 from 8 bits per byte effectively enlarging message be 1/3 of original size)