Messages Size Limits

There are many places to set the message size limit in exchange. Miss configuring any of those will affect all the others as the most restrictive setting applies.

Mainly there are 4 levels

* Global settings
* The connector.
* SMTP Virtual server
* The individual user level

Here are some articles about this issue, while reading them you will get confused; having a look at the examples at the end will help a lot.

1- http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;322679
2- http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Set-Size-Limits-Messages.html
3- http://www.ftponline.com/wss/2003_09/online/exchangetip2/