From: Phil Pennock <pdp@exim.org>
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 04:43:15 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: Document behaviour of message_size_limit=0 (main config setting, not transport)
X-Git-Tag: list_safety_merge_proposal~6
X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/exim.git/commitdiff_plain/ac8c9fbdec78f15484599cfaae195f24a6fe4858

Document behaviour of message_size_limit=0 (main config setting, not transport)
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diff --git a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
index b7d8c465d..1c3e43492 100644
--- a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
+++ b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
@@ -14169,6 +14169,10 @@ probably safest to just set it to a little larger than this value.  Eg, with a
 default Exim message size of 50M and a default ClamAV StreamMaxLength of 10M,
 some problems may result.
 
+A value of 0 will disable size limit checking; Exim will still advertise the
+SIZE extension in an EHLO response, but without a limit, so as to permit
+SMTP clients to still indicate the message size along with the MAIL verb.
+
 
 .option move_frozen_messages main boolean false
 .cindex "frozen messages" "moving"