Haines Brown <[email protected]> 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. Of course it had no effect. The code snippet above (before your edit) does the following: If the Macro MESSAGE_SIZE_LIMIT is defined set the config option message_size_limit to the contents of MESSAGE_SIZE_LIMIT What you did was If the Macro MESSAGE_SIZE_LIMIT is defined set the config option message_size_limit to 200MB Since MESSAGE_SIZE_LIMIT is normally undefined, the code does nothing in both cases. What you need to do is to revert you changes and define MESSAGE_SIZE_LIMIT in a file called "/etc/exim4/exim4.conf.localmacros", which will then get included in the autogenerated config file. Please read /usr/share/doc/exim4/README.Debian.gz as everything is documented in there. Grüße, Sven. -- Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.
