{"id":23,"date":"2009-09-15T16:55:34","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T20:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/?p=23"},"modified":"2013-03-20T08:39:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-20T12:39:00","slug":"message-size-exceeds-maximum-permitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/message-size-exceeds-maximum-permitted","title":{"rendered":"How to increase mail size in exim?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You may receive a bounce back message saying &#8220;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Message size exceeds maximum permitted<\/strong><\/span>&#8221; on sending an email greater than the size defined in the exim configuration. On a cPanel server, the message size limit is 50MB by default.<\/p>\n<p>In order to raise the message size limit, you need to <strong>edit the exim configuration file<\/strong> either manually located at <strong>\/etc\/exim.conf<\/strong> OR from <strong>WHM &gt;&gt; Exim Configuration Editor &gt; Advanced Mode<\/strong> and at the very start of the file, add the following line:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">message_size_limit = 100<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Save the file and restart the exim service.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong># service exim restart<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This will increase the message size to 100MB. You can verify the new size by executing the following command:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong># exim -bP | grep message_size_limit<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may receive a bounce back message saying &#8220;Message size exceeds maximum permitted&#8221; on sending an email greater than the size defined in the exim configuration. On a cPanel server, the message size limit is 50MB by default.<br \/>\nIn order to raise the message size limit, you need to edit the exim configuration file either manually located at \/etc\/exim.conf OR from WHM &gt;&gt; Exim Configuration Editor &gt; Advanced Mode and at the very start of the file, add the following line:<br \/>\nmessage_size_limit = 100<br \/>\nSave the file and restart the exim [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[777,779,780,406,778,407,776],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":328,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions\/328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linuxhostingsupport.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}