[Kde-pim] more than 50 MByte as attachment

[Kevin Krammer]

On Sunday 07 September 2008, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Sunday 07 September 2008, Giovanni Venturi wrote:
> > A user asked me why KMail forbids more than 50 MBytes for the
> > attachments. Is this a KMail Enterprise Branch feature moved into
> > kdepim 3.5.8, isn't it? KMail told him to ask to the administrator.
> > How to modify the option? I know that more than 50 MByte as
> > attachment is absurd, but he asked me how to fix this and looking
> > into KMail options seems no options available for the attachments
> > dimention... am I wrong?
>
> The option is not configurable via KMail's configuration dialog, but it
> exists. If you want to change it, then use the following command (this
> example changes the maximum to 100 MB):
>
> kwriteconfig --file kmailrc --group Composer --key MaximumAttachmentSize
> 100
>
>
> BTW, if you are looking for a config option, then first look into the
> kcfg file (i.e. kmail.kcfg in the case of KMail).

One of my favorite user support tips :)
Had it in my Akademy 2007 presentation.

kde-config --path kcfg
or
kde4-config --path kcfg

for a list of paths where these files are stored.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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