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552 Message size exceeds maximum permitted

Error ::

When your sender got the bouce back email with the message

SMTP error from remote mail server after MAIL FROM: SIZE=5000000:
host mail.domain.com [xx.xx.xx.xx]: 552 Message size exceeds maximum permitted

 

Resolution ::

Increase the message size limit set. Follow the steps given bellow.

1. Login to ypur server with the ssh access and root user

2. Edit exim.conf files.

#vi /etc/exim.conf

3. Search for “message_size_limit” and change the limit.

message_size_limit = 6M

Note :: I used 6 megabytes in my example, you change change 5m to whichever size you would like.


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