On Tue 10 May 2016 at 10:28:24 -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Tue 10 May 2016 at 11:07:47 (-0400), Haines Brown wrote: > > I tried to use mutt to send someone a zip file of about 50 Mb and got > > the error: "Error sending message, child exited 1 (). Could not send > > message." > > > > I assumed the attachment was too large and so went to > > /etc/exim4/conf.d/main/02*/ and altered the configuration to be: > > > > # Message size limit. The default (used when MESSAGE_SIZE_LIMIT > > # is unset) is 50 MB > > .ifdef MESSAGE_SIZE_LIMIT > > # message_size_limit = MESSAGE_SIZE_LIMIT # I commented this line > > message_size_limit = 200 MB # I added this line > > .endif > > > > I restarted exim, but it had no effect. > > Isn't the Debian way to put > > MESSAGE_SIZE_LIMIT=foo > > into /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf and then run > # dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config
I think it is necessary only to restart exim after altering the file. I use the split configuration and put directives in my own file /etc/exim4/conf.d/main/00_custom_macros.
