[Pkg-exim4-users] Where to change the message size limit

[Ron Leach]

On 07/05/2016 13:03, Ron Leach wrote:
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> Insert this line into /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.localmacros
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> MESSAGE_SIZE_LIMIT = 100M
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This wasn't a good idea.

Exim did not seem to reject the configuration but, after making this 
change last thing at night, the next morning we found no inbound 
emails, and a paniclog full to the brim with:

invalid message_size_limit: invalid integer "100M###{49 x #}#"

Exim didn't like 100M.  The report seems (to me) to indicate Exim 
didn't like the 'value', rather than anything in the 'syntax'.  As 
though 100M is a valid number syntactically, but 100M is an invalid 
value for this parameter.  That is my reading of the message.

http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-main_configuration.html

(a long way down the web page)

makes no comment about the permissible number range, though.

I've commented out my setting in localmacros.  Later I will try 
various other values to make sure that my syntax, at least, is correct.

regards, Ron