[Users] Strange limitation.

[Cliff Laine]

On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 15:47:44 +0200
Albert ARIBAUD <albert.aribaud at free.fr> wrote:

> Bonjour Cliff,
> 
> Le Mon, 30 Mar 2015 11:49:41 +0100, Cliff Laine
> <clifflaine at europe.com> a écrit :
> 
> > On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 20:51:31 +0000
> > Paul <claws at thewildbeast.co.uk> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Thu, 26 Mar 2015 21:26:57 +0100
> > > "Erik P. Olsen" <erik at epo.dk> (by way of Erik P. Olsen
> > > <epodata at gmail.com>) wrote: 
> > > 
> > > > After sending a mail with an attached file I received the
> > > > message that the mail was not sent because it was larger that a
> > > > limitation of 100 Mb. Is that a limitation imposed by
> > > > claws-mail and can it possibly be altered?
> > > 
> > > It's a server restriction.
> > > 
> > 
> > I had this problem too. The setting is in you php.ini file. 
> 
> Hmm, no, we're not talking about the size of a POST request to a
> website here, we're talking about the size of an e-mail to a SMTP
> server. There is no php.ini involved -- there actually is no PHP
> involved at all, unless the SMTP server you're talking to is in PHP,
> but then, as a mail user, you won't be able to change its .ini file.
> 

Oops! I beg your pardon :) 

Cliff