Attachment Size Limit Question
Got this question a few days back and thought I would share the answer (as I have seen it posed a few times)...
We have emailed enabled a discussion board and it works fine except for emails with attachments greater than 2 MB in size.
We are using the default for document libraries at 50MB (and we dont have an Exchange limit)...the email just gets rejected.
Is there a size limit on attachments? If so, can we change it?
The answer is that this is not a SharePoint problem; it is an SMTP server limitation. To resolve this, do the following:
- Launch IIS Manager and navigate to the SMTP server
- Go to the properties of that server
- On the Messages tab, look for the size limit for attachments (typically it is 2MB)
- Change this value to a more acceptable limit and click Apply