Increase message size limit in SAS-Email

[sathya66]

Hi All,

How can we increase the email size limit in SAS. SAS uses local host then  it will talk with SMTP relays. From Linux box through mailx/sendmail command we are able to send <20 MB file but not with SAS. looks like default is 10MB but we need to send <20 MB  files. Is there a way can set this in SAS?  we have changed  the setting in main.conf to 20MB (message_limit_size=20480000)but SAS not letting us to send(same file). See below

NOTE: The file MYEMAIL is:

      E-Mail Access Device



WARNING: Email: 552 5.3.4 Error: message file too big

NOTE: 2 records were written to the file MYEMAIL.

      The minimum record length was 13.

      The maximum record length was 14.

[gwootton]

That message is the response we are receiving when trying to send the message from the SMTP server, so this is not a setting in SAS. If you are able to send the same file successfully to the same address outside of SAS, perhaps SAS is using a different email server (EMAILHOST system option)?

[sathya66]

-emailhost localhost in <path> SASApp/sasv9.cfg

[gwootton]

I believe localhost is the default for sendmail too. The rejection could also be coming from the destination email server, in your testing were you sending to the same address with mailx/sendmail?

[sathya66]

Yes, able to send <20MB files to the same address with mailx command

[gwootton]

I'm not sure why the same email server sending to the same remote mail server would respond saying the same file is too large to one request and not another.

[Sajid01 · Accepted solution]

@sathya66 

"how can we increase the email size limit in SAS". This is something that has to be done on SMTP server configuration. Typically this something not done on SAS side.
The error code 552.x.x is from the SMTP server and indicates storage.
Some times character encoding is like to increase the effective mail size. That could be one reason
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