Accepting larger mail

[cozened]

Good day,

I simply cant find anything about this, where do I configure the limit of files / mails the system accepts? (using ISPConfig 3 on Debian Lenny)

Users are complaining about this so I need to make the limit bigger.

What generally are people using for there customers?

With best regards
Tómas

[Hans]

First read out the value of your current message_size_limit with the command postconf | grep message_size_limit

If needed, you can change the value of message_size_limit by editing the postfix configuration file /etc/postfix/main.cf.
TWo examples:

#Accept maximum 10MB:
message_size_limit = 10240000

#Unlimited:
message_size_limit = 0

After changing your postfix configuration file, you reload postfix:
/etc/init.d/postfix reload

If you have a webmail client installed on your server and you want to send bigger attachments with it, also change the values of post_max_size & upload_max_filesize in your php.ini file.

Example:

; Maximum size of POST data that PHP will accept.
post_max_size = 10M

; Maximum allowed size for uploaded files.
upload_max_filesize = 10M

After changing your php.ini file, reload apache with:
/etc/init.d/apache2 reload

[cozened]

Thank you Hans.

I could grep the size limit , and it was 10240000 but I could not see it in the mail.cf file itself so I just put a line there "messages_size_limit = 0" and reload it.

Grep it again and it said it was 0 so now I'm trying to send a 100mb file (realy extreme I know but just trying )

Just so other people will know if they wanna do this , if the line is missing you just add it to the main.cf file

The php settings where something I needed aswell except I found the php.ini file in /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini and changed there those values but I stil cant to seem to see the change in roundcube (by trying to upload a file)

Is that the right config file or ?

with best regards
Tómas

[Hans]

The default size limit for Postfix is 10MB, so you only need to define a value for "messages_size_limit" if it is different then 10 MB.

Depending on which php mode you're using.
You can also increase the value for post_max_size & upload_max_filesize within the files /etc/php5/cgi/php.ini and /etc/php5/cli/php.ini. Of course if your website uses its own php.ini file, you have to make you're modifications there.

[cozened]

Hi Hans,

Thank you! that did the trick

now everything is working smoothly, thanks again!

best regards
Tómas