From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 1 16:58:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA20378 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 1 May 1998 16:58:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA20353 for ; Fri, 1 May 1998 16:58:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id JAA03700; Sat, 2 May 1998 09:28:18 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980502092818.G3572@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 2 May 1998 09:28:18 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Sue Blake , Sue Blake Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: maximum message size References: <19980501194338.08115@welearn.com.au> <19980501220926.32381@welearn.com.au> <19980501223407.02713@welearn.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19980501223407.02713@welearn.com.au>; from Sue Blake on Fri, May 01, 1998 at 10:34:07PM +1000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 1 May 1998 at 22:34:07 +1000, Sue Blake wrote: > On Fri, May 01, 1998 at 10:09:27PM +1000, Sue Blake wrote: >> On Fri, May 01, 1998 at 07:43:38PM +1000, Sue Blake wrote: >>> I found these lines in sendmail.cf >>> >>> # maximum message size >>> #O MaxMessageSize=1000000 >>> >>> So, I guess all I'd have to do is remove the # from the second line, >>> change that number (presumably the number of bytes) and restart sendmail, >>> then it'd limit messages to that number of bytes, like this: >>> >>> # maximum message size >>> O MaxMessageSize=100 >> >> Oops! Don't do that! :-( >> >> It must be lines, not bytes, or something. >> 1000000 seems a more reasonable figure... well at least it lets *some* mail >> get in now! (Hello?) > > I mean KILObytes. I mean it's NOT kilobytes. I mean... > Argh... got them zeros sorted out and it works now anyway. Must be past your bedtime. It's bytes. Why don't you check it in the bat book? More-reminding you what Grog -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message