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Re: mutt attachment error



On Tue 10 May 2016 at 17:43:03 +0200, Sven Hartge wrote:

> 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.

Didn't spot that; exim's .confs can be confusing. What file is used for
non-split configuration?


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