[imp] attachments time out during upload

[Douglas Furlong]

Quoting Eric Rostetter <eric.rostetter at physics.utexas.edu>:

> Quoting Ken Winke <ken at optimus.com>:
>
> > I'm not sure if this is a feature of Horde, or else a setting I need to
> > tweak in apache or php.  I'd like to be able to use attachments through
> > horde between 5-10MB.  However, when I try to attach them, it usually
> > errors out after 60 seconds.  The occassions I've had it successfully
> > attach, it errors out while sending the message...which results in the
> > message arriving but without the attachment.
> >
> > I tried updating the max_execution_time variable in php.ini but that didn't
> > seem to make a difference.
>
> I could be a php.ini setting (max_memory, post_max_size, upload_max_filesize,
> etc) or it could be a webserver setting (e.g. apache's Timeout value)

There is also a /etc/httpd/conf.d/php.ini file that needs to be edited as this
causes problems on Redhat 8 and on.

    LimitRequestBody 5242880


> > Also...is this a bad idea?  Should I be capping uploads at smaller sizes to
> > prevent overall poor performance through the server or is it successful on
> > a fairly current server (dual PIII/866 - 512mb RAM)?
>
> I cap my email at 10 MB.  But an upload of a file may be up to two times
> the original size (e.g. base64 encoded), so there is some room for error
> here.  Also, if your users are on slow links, it will take a *very*
> long time to upload any large files.  Don't try this on a 56K modem, or
> even a 128K adsl/isdn link.
>
> > Thanks for any help...
> >
> > ...ken
>
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> Eric Rostetter
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> The University of Texas at Austin
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