mailx problem - message size

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Hi There,

I have a strange problem trying to use mailx from the command line. if I pipe the contents of a file using the command…

cat temp.txt | mail -v -s “test4” shaun@hypervox.co.uk

the message *will *send if it’s less than 2500 lines long - anything above that, and I get the following ouput…

shaun@hypervox.co.uk… queued

There’s obviuosly some sort of limit going on, but I can’t find it anywhere - my sendmail config is very basic (just using the yast parameters) - can anyone point me in the right direction?

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What is the version of mailx you are using? I had to upgrade to 12.4 due to some other trouble (charset problems). 12.2 seems buggy.

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12.2 - I’ll try upgrading it and see what happens…

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That didn’t work. Tried sending the message using telnet to port 25, and got the same reaction, so it’s a sendmail problem.

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As far as I know there is no such limit as 2500 lines for the message body in sendmail. This is very strange. Can you post the relevant line(s) from the logfile /var/log/mail showing what it did when receiving the message?