Setting max file size in sendmail

Jonathan Chen jonc at chen.org.nz
Tue Apr 15 00:25:33 PDT 2003


On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 12:55:57AM -0400, David Loszewski wrote:
> Please respond to dave at bsdadmins.net as I do not have a subscription to this list under this email address but under a different address.  
> 
> I'm having a problem trying to set the max file size for incoming mail.  Could someone guide me on how to do this? What do I need to change in the sendmail.mc? What do I do?
> 

By default, it is set to [infinite] bytes. You can set a limit with:

    define(`confMAX_MESSAGE_SIZE', `1000000')

which sets it to 1000000 bytes. Check out /usr/share/sendmail/cf/README
for more details.
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Jonathan Chen <jonc at chen.org.nz>
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