On 5/15/2012 9:44 AM, /dev/rob0 wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 09:17:16AM +0200, Andreas Oster wrote: >> # Allow maximum mail size 40GB >> message_size_limit = 40480000 > The comment is wrong. 40480000 is only 40MB. Good, because most sites > will not accept any multi-GB mail. In addition, be careful how high you set this or issues may arise. There have been reports to this list where overflows have occurred.
It may be platform dependent, but my minimal research found the (message|mailbox)_size_limit parameters are a signed 32-bit integer. This will limit the parameters to around 2GB. I checked this a while ago and things may or may not have changed. Be sure to test any large number configurations before setting them loose to the world.
