Wietse Venema wrote: > Wietse Venema: >> Seth Mattinen: >>> I'm seeing "Error: message file too big" but I'm not sure what's causing >>> it. The exact byte count of the message+headers is 100793284, but I have >>> message_size_limit set to 104857600. Is there something else going into >>> the size calculation that I'm missing? >> Yes, the message ENVELOPE, plus other information that Postfix uses >> to record where mail came from and where it goes to. > > The exact byte count also depends on what form the message is in. > > UNIX uses newline-separated text, while SMTP uses <CR><LF>, adding > one byte to each line. Postfix internally stores message text as > typed records with an explicit length, which use about the same > amount of storage as SMTP. This difference alone can easily expand > UNIX text files by a few percent. >
Got it. Thanks for the explanation. ~Seth
