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failing to send a large mail
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Subject:	failing to send a large mail
Group:	Postfix-users
From:	martin f krafft
Date:	29 May 2007

I sent a mail with a 20Mb attachment this afternoon. I know SMTP is
not for file transfer but sometimes you have to. Anyway, now it's
three and a half hours later and the mail has not even entered the
postfix queue yet. ps still says:

madduck 15374 0.0 0.0 30992 1900 ? S 15:39 0:00 sendmail -oem -oi -- recipient@server
madduck 15375 0.0 0.0 30984 1884 ? S 15:39 0:00 /usr/sbin/postdrop -r

There is nothing in the logs. Does anyone have an idea what is going
on? message_size_limit is the default 10M, which is clearly smaller
than what I am trying to send. But why do I not get any errors or
log entries?

This is postfix 2.4.0-3 on Debian sid. postconf -n follows:

alias_maps = hash:/etc/aliases
append_dot_mydomain = no
biff = no
config_directory = /etc/postfix
inet_interfaces = loopback-only
inet_protocols = all
mailbox_size_limit = 0
mydomain = oerlikon.madduck.net
mynetworks_style = host
myorigin = piper.madduck.net
recipient_delimiter = +
relayhost = smtp.oerlikon.madduck.net

Thanks for any hints.

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martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.)
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