[doc] [Fwd: Re: [imp] compose with attachment/s sized 800kb+]

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Benoit St-André <ben at benoitst-andre.net>:

> Message seen in the IMP lists...
>
> I browsed through horde and imp docs/ and I didn't find any mentions of
> memory_limit of php.

It's checked for in test.php.

We should add an additional test there though that covers all settings that
influence file uploads.

> Should we add this somewhere (I believe so). And if so, is INSTALL of
> IMP , or Horde, or PERFORMANCE of Horde the best place to put it ?
>
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> kendyl peebles a écrit :
>> ok, memory_limit seems to be the controlling factor in this issue... 
>>  with it
>> set to unlimited (-1)  the compose window behaves like it should and 
>> not like
>> the spoiled 3yr old that it was acting like before..
>> Intention is to limit attachment sizes to ~8mb and have proper notification
>> instead of just dieing.
>> the following are my quick and dirty test results...
>> memory_limit = 8M
>> ~400k attachment - OK
>> ~600k attachment - OK
>> ~800k attachment - compose window becomes blank white screen that never goes
>> away, after closing that window, subsequent compose popups never 
>> load past the
>> 'browser' window frame... cannot log out of imp.. must kill browser 
>> window and
>> bring up new browser and log back in... message arrives intact at 
>> destination
>> ~900k attachment - "The page cannot be displayed" error... imp behaves
>> normally after closing the compose popup manually. message arrives intact at
>> destination.
>>
>> memory_limit = 16M
>> ~600k attachment - OK
>> ~800k attachment - OK
>> ~1M   attachment - OK
>> ~1.4M attachment - OK
>> ~1.6M attachment - OK
>> ~1.7M attachment - OK
>> ~1.8M attachment - compose window becomes blank white screen that never goes
>> away, after closing that window, subsequent compose popups never 
>> load past the
>> 'browser' window frame... cannot log out of imp.. must kill browser 
>> window and
>> bring up new browser and log back in... message arrives intact at 
>> destination
>> ~1.9M   attachment - "The page cannot be displayed" error... imp behaves
>> normally after closing the compose popup manually. message arrives intact at
>> destination.
>>
>> memory_limit = 24M
>> 1.8M attachment - OK
>> 2M    attachment - OK
>> 2.2M attachment -OK
>> 2.4M attachment - OK
>> 2.6M attachment - OK
>> 2.8M attachment - compose window becomes blank white screen that never goes
>> away, after closing that window, subsequent compose popups never 
>> load past the
>> 'browser' window frame... cannot log out of imp.. must kill browser 
>> window and
>> bring up new browser and log back in... message arrives intact at 
>> destination
>> 2.9M attachment - "The page cannot be displayed" error... imp 
>> behaves normally
>> after closing the compose popup manually. message arrives intact at
>> destination.
>>
>> memory_limit = 32M
>> 2.8M attachment - OK
>> 3M    attachment - OK
>> 3.4M attachment - OK
>> 3.8M attachnemt - compose window becomes blank white screen that never goes
>> away, after closing that window, subsequent compose popups never 
>> load past the
>> 'browser' window frame... cannot log out of imp.. must kill browser 
>> window and
>> bring up new browser and log back in... message arrives intact at 
>> destination
>> 3.9M attachment - "The page cannot be displayed" error... imp 
>> behaves normally
>> after closing the compose popup manually. message arrives intact at
>> destination.
>>
>> hmmm  following progression... 8*8=64 should get me ~7.7mb attachment size,
>> lets add 4 to set above 8M so.... setting memory_limit = 68M
>> trying:
>>
>> 8M attachment - OK
>>
>> setting post_max_size = 7M, upload_max_filesize = 7M, leaving memory_limit =
>> 68M
>>
>> hmmm  no notification of exceeding filesize limit... can push all the way up
>> to 8.2M and the earlier documented symptom manifest...
>>
>> I can live with that... I think... user gets that issue... smack his 
>> hand for
>> sending attachments that large... <shrug>
>>
>> Kendyl
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Josh Trutwin wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Tue, 02 Nov 2004 07:33:25 -0500
>>> kendyl peebles <kendylpeebles at clancytheys.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> remove the memory limit?!?  hmmm
>>>> I'll give a try to upping the memory limit and also see what happens
>>>> when it is removed altogether...
>>>
>>> I guess if you set memory_limit to -1 that it's unlimitted as well -
>>> see:
>>> http://us2.php.net/manual/en/ini.sect.resource-limits.php#ini.memory-limit
>>>
>>> Note, your php needs to be built with:
>>>
>>> --enable-memory-limit
>>>
>>> Create a phpinfo.php script if you're not sure if that's the case.
>>>
>>> Josh
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Jan.

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