Configuring maxmessagesize

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The following explains how to observe and adjust the Maximum Message Size for messages passing through the Zimbra MTA (Postfix). The message_size_limit postconf parameter is configured globally for all Zimbra MTAs. The default Zimbra MTA configuration uses the default Postfix message_size_limit of 10MB (i.e. '10240000' bytes). Note that this is the size of the full RFC 2822 internet message, after any necessary MIME-encoding.

Postfix configuration (zimbraMtaMaxMessageSize and message_size_limit)

You can examine the current value of this parameter like this:

# su - zimbra
$ postconf message_size_limit
message_size_limit = 10240000

This configuration parameter is stored in the zimbra ldap directory, and propagated to postconf's message_size_limit by zmmtaconfig, which is invoked by the zimbra postfix command. The following commands will set the message_size_limit to 2MB (adjust this value to suit your needs):

# su - zimbra
$ zmprov modifyConfig zimbraMtaMaxMessageSize 2048000
$ postfix reload

You can then confirm the changes with this command:

$ postconf | grep message_size_limit

File upload size configuration (zimbraFileUploadMaxSize)

Until ZCS 5, there is a separate configuration parameter for file uploads . File uploads include, for example, attachments to messages (appointments, tasks, etc), and messages imported by the migration tools (PST Import Wizard, Exchange Migration Wizard, etc). The zimbraFileUploadMaxSize can be configured globally or per server. Note: If you have more than one mailbox node, it may be necessary to restart tomcat on nodes where the commands were not run in order to pick up the changes immediately.

This will globally set the size to 5mb:

# su - zimbra
$ zmprov modifyConfig zimbraFileUploadMaxSize 5000000

Then this will allow 20mb uploads to the server mail2.domain.com:

$ zmprov modifyServer mail2.domain.com zimbraFileUploadMaxSize 20000000


Additional Resources

http://www.postfix.org/resource.html


Verified Against: unknown Date Created: 1/31/2007
Article ID: https://wiki.zimbra.com/index.php?title=Configuring_maxmessagesize Date Modified: 2008-10-27



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