Max Message (Send/Receive) Size

[Oswald-Kolle]

Hey everybody,

I got a problem today - a friend of mine wanted to send me a "large" (I don't think that it is that large!) Email and got it back with the error message:

message size 10678657 exceeds size limit 10240000 of server

So my question is - where / how do I set the message-size limitation to at least 50MB or if possible to unlimited?

Regards,
Mario

[StefanD]

su - zimbra -c "zmprov mcf zimbraMtaMaxMessageSize 51200000"
su - zimbra -c "zmprov mcf zimbraFileUploadMaxSize 51200000"

[Oswald-Kolle]

Okay - that sounds easy... ;-)
Why isn't it possible to change that value within the administration page?

Do I have to restart the zimbra-Mailserver to make these changes take effect?

Thanks for your answer!!

[Oswald-Kolle]

Well I wrote your lines and now I got these error messages when I try to start the mailserver:

Starting ldap...Done.
Starting logger...Done.
Starting mailbox...Done.
Starting imapproxy...FAILED
Starting imap4
dlopen of "/opt/zimbra/perdition-1.17/lib/libperditiondb_gdbm.so.0" failed
perdition version 1.17 Copyright Horms

perdition is a mail retrieval proxy daemon

Usage: perdition [options]
....
Notes: Default value for binary flags is off.
If a string argument is empty ("") then the option will not
be used unless noted otherwise.
See the perdition(8) man page for more details.
imap4 is not running
imap4s is not running
pop3 is not running
pop3s is not running


Starting antispam...Done.
Starting antivirus...Done.
Starting snmp...Done.
Starting spell...Done.
Starting mta...Done.

So the Server is running, but the mentioned imap and pop servers are NOT running... And the status shows:

antispam Running
antivirus Running
imapproxy Stopped
imap4 is not running
imap4s is not running
pop3 is not running
pop3s is not running
ldap Running
logger Running
mailbox Running
mta Running
snmp Running
spell Running

But I can still NOT receive EMails with more than about 10MB.. :-(

Hope anybody has an idea how to solve this!?

Mario

[andreychek]

Originally Posted by Oswald-Kolle

But I can still NOT receive EMails with more than about 10MB.. :-(

Hope anybody has an idea how to solve this!?

I don't know that this will solve the second problem you ran into, but you can in fact change this from the Zimbra web interface.

Log into the admin interface, click Global Settings, choose the MTA tab, then change the 'Maximum message size' option.

And (enable wishful thinking mode) perhaps that'll somehow solve your second problem ;-)
-Eric

[Oswald-Kolle]

Well... The console commands now give an error message.
And I am not able to change the value within the admin-interface - the value of 50000 is there and when I change it and save the "new" Value it turns back to 50000 - and it doesn't matter if I switch it to a lower or higher value... :-(

Do I have to switch anything else to be able to change these values?! Or how do I come back to the old configuration files (before I tried the commands written by StefanD?

Mario

[StefanD]

I don't know why it didn't work.
Here are the original settings

zimbraMtaMaxMessageSize: 10240000
zimbraFileUploadMaxSize: 10485760

[Oswald-Kolle]

Well... Stupid me, but wich file do I need to edit?

[StefanD]

These settings are saved in ldap
zmprov is the command line interface to manage all the simbra settings.

su - zimbra -c "zmprov mcf zimbraMtaMaxMessageSize 10240000"
su - zimbra -c "zmprov mcf zimbraFileUploadMaxSize 10485760"

[Oswald-Kolle]

Well - this time the command worked without an error message...
But I cannot stop and then start the server without the above given error messages....
In addition to that I even cannot stop/start the sever because tomcat isn't starting as well... Therfore it is needed to reboot the machine.... I am sure that I didn't had these Problems with the latest version before 4.0....
Maybe this problem is new?!