So far as I know, the RFCs for SMTP define no limits on the size of emailQuote:>re,
> New to the sysadmin game...I have users wanting to email very large
>files. Is there a limit imposed by the RFP's? I run Solaris 2.5.1 with
messages. However, sendmail can be (and frequently is) configured to reject
mail over a certain (arbitrary) size, mainly to prevent someone from trying
to bring down your server by mailing a few hundred gigs of random data to
it. (I usually configure sendmail to bounce messages over 6 megs or so,
depending on how much free disk space the mail server usually has.)
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