Re: mutt attachment error
David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> On Tue 10 May 2016 at 11:07:47 (-0400), Haines Brown wrote:
>> I tried to use mutt to send someone a zip file of about 50 Mb and got
>> the error: "Error sending message, child exited 1 (). Could not send
>> message."
>>
>> I assumed the attachment was too large and so went to
>> /etc/exim4/conf.d/main/02*/ and altered the configuration to be:
>>
>> # Message size limit. The default (used when MESSAGE_SIZE_LIMIT
>> # is unset) is 50 MB
>> .ifdef MESSAGE_SIZE_LIMIT
>> # message_size_limit = MESSAGE_SIZE_LIMIT # I commented this line
>> message_size_limit = 200 MB # I added this line
>> .endif
>>
>> I restarted exim, but it had no effect.
> Isn't the Debian way to put
> MESSAGE_SIZE_LIMIT=foo
> into /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf and then run
> # dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config
No, that won't work. You cannot just put stuff into
/etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf and hope it will make it into the
configuration.
Grüße,
Sven.
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Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.
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