On Thu, 23 Dec 2021 22:25:32 -0500 Scott Kitterman <sc...@kitterman.com> 
wrote:
> On Mon, 11 May 2020 13:40:28 +0200 Peter Keel <bugt...@discordia.ch> wrote:
> > Package: postfix
> > Version: 3.4.10-0+deb10u1
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Tags: upstream
> > 
> > Hello
> > 
> > Trying to set the postfix message_size_limit to 0 (educated guess
> > for unlimited) will just have it use the compile-time-default of
> > 10240000.
> > 
> > And then it turns out if you set it quite high, it will complain: 
> > fatal: bad numerical configuration: message_size_limit = 2147483648 
> > 
> > Because the maximum is actually 2147483647 (one less than 2 GiB)
> > Why would it have a maximum? 
> 
> It turns out that's LONG_MAX on a 32 bit machine.  Upstream has updated the 
> documentation for Postfix 3.7 to explain this.  I think for a limitation like 
> this a documentation update is the appropriate solution.

We have 3.7 in Unstable/Testing now, so this has been addressed.

Scott K

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