CentOS 5.x | SendMail 8.14
I'm curious - what is the largest message size that SendMail will successfully accept from an upstream source via SMTP? The tweaking config options page indicates that by default, confMAX_MESSAGE_SIZE
is "infinite".
I understand that downstream MTAs have their own limits and it's not practical these days to send attachments to larger than, say, 25 MB.... but since sendmail doesn't have an upstream restriction by default, at what point is it conceivable to expect things like OutOfMemory errors? Are there other bottlenecks that affect SendMail's ability to receive really large messages?