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

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, May 10, 2016 at 09:29:19AM +0100, Ron Leach wrote:
> 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.

What did actually end up in /var/lib/exim4/config.autogenerated? While
I am reasonably sure that exim isn't this picky, I'd check for
Unix/Windows line endings, non-printing characters and/or trailing
spaces in the line where you set 100M.

I can confirm that MESSAGE_SIZE_LIMIT = 40M on my mail server works
fine, such as MESSAGE_SIZE_LIMIT = 100M works as well (here, on
jessie). My gut feeling says non-printing character or wrong line
ending.

Otherwise, I'd say this is strange.

Greetings
Marc

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