[Mailman-Users] Message body is too big

[Sonam Chauhan]

Hi Laurian - Did you change the max. mail size allowed
for that list in the admin page. 

If that didn't fix the problem, see if you have this problem:
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I've seen mailman belly-up when hit with a large volume 
of mails (which had large attachments) in a short period 
(e.g.: 450 emails, totalling 35 MB, in 5-10 minutes)
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In such cases, this worked for me:
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1- remove all mails from the offending queue. We have two options:
  a-  Clean out the qfiles directory (and lose all unprocessed mail)
  b-  Pick them and add them manually to the archives
      cat qfiles/*.msg > unprocessed_messages
      cat unprocessed_messages >>
archives/private/<list_name>.mbox/<list_name>.mbox

2- Remove all lockfiles (this may not be needed). 
     rm -f locks/*

3- Rebuild the public archives for that list
     bin/arch  <list_name>    
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Sonam
  



Laurian Gridinoc wrote:
> 
> Hi there,
> 
> After a bounce with:
> "Reason:  Message body is too big: 1841456 bytes but there's a limit of
> 512 KB"
> 
> all my lists are dead, ven if I rejected the mail as admin; all the
> mails come in by the wrapper, and no mail is sent.
> 
> I wiped the list with the original problem and recreated it from scratch
> but no help.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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