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Re: mutt attachment error

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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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mutt attachment error Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2016-05-10 17:10 +0200
  Re: mutt attachment error David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-05-10 17:30 +0200
    Re: mutt attachment error Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-05-10 17:50 +0200
    Re: mutt attachment error Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2016-05-10 17:50 +0200
      Re: mutt attachment error Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-05-10 18:10 +0200
        Re: mutt attachment error Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2016-05-10 20:00 +0200
          Re: mutt attachment error Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-05-10 20:50 +0200
          Re: mutt attachment error Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2016-05-11 17:20 +0200
            Re: mutt attachment error Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2016-05-11 18:20 +0200
              Re: mutt attachment error <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2016-05-11 18:30 +0200
                Re: mutt attachment error Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-05-11 19:40 +0200
            Re: mutt attachment error Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-05-11 19:00 +0200
        Re: mutt attachment error Charlie Kravetz <cjk@teamcharliesangels.com> - 2016-05-10 21:30 +0200
          Re: mutt attachment error Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-05-10 21:50 +0200
            Re: mutt attachment error Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2016-05-10 23:50 +0200
      Re: mutt attachment error David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-05-11 22:00 +0200
        Re: mutt attachment error Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-05-12 12:40 +0200
          Exim and hostname --fqdn, was Re: mutt attachment error David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-05-12 17:20 +0200
            Re: Exim and hostname --fqdn, was Re: mutt attachment error Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-05-12 21:40 +0200
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                Re: Exim and hostname --fqdn, was Re: mutt attachment error Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-05-18 01:10 +0200
  Re: mutt attachment error Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2016-05-10 20:10 +0200
    Re: mutt attachment error Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net> - 2016-05-13 13:20 +0200
      Re: mutt attachment error David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-05-13 15:40 +0200
        Re: mutt attachment error Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2016-05-13 15:50 +0200
      Re: mutt attachment error Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2016-05-13 15:50 +0200
      Re: mutt attachment error Ron Leach <ronleach@tesco.net> - 2016-05-13 19:10 +0200
      Re: mutt attachment error Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-05-13 19:10 +0200

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