Message
Exceeds Maximum Size
----- The following
addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<JDOE@RESPONSE.ETRACKS.COM>
(reason: 552 5.2.3 <JDOE@YOURDOMAIN.COM>... Message size exceeds
fixed
maximum message size (80000))
----- Transcript
of session follows -----
... while talking to response.etracks.com.:
>>> MAIL From:<JDOE@YOURDOMAIN.COM> SIZE=222751
<<< 552 5.2.3 <JDOE@YOURDOMAIN.COM>... Message size
exceeds fixed maximum message size (80000)
554 5.0.0 <JDOE@RESPONSE.ETRACKS.COM>... Service unavailable
On
many systems the mail server is configured to reject large messages.
In the past this was usually done to conserve disk space on the
mail server. These days, with an increasing number of maturity-challenged
Internet users thinking it is "kewl" to clog up other
people's mailboxes with huge junk file attachments, it is often
used to prevent users' mailboxes from overflowing their quotas due
to stupid childish pranks.
The
number in parentheses (80000 in this example) is not always present,
but if it is it shows the per-message size limit imposed by the
remote mail system, expressed in bytes.
What
you should do:
The
only solution is to shorten the message and try again. In many cases
this means deleting the multi-megabyte file attachment you're trying
to send to someone who probably doesn't want it anyway.
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