JIRA cannot send mails: Message file too big

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Symptoms

The mail queue is stuck and JIRA is unable to send mail messages. On the log files we have the following error:

2013-04-01 08:09:11,463 ERROR [SMTP Mail Server] Sending mailitem com.atlassian.support.tools.salext.mail.SupportRequestMailQueueItem@56d2476a ServiceRunner    Mail Queue Service Error occurred in sending e-mail: com.atlassian.support.tools.salext.mail.SupportRequestMailQueueItem@56d2476a
com.atlassian.mail.MailException: com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSendFailedException: 552 5.3.4 Error: message file too big
	at com.atlassian.mail.server.impl.SMTPMailServerImpl.sendWithMessageId(SMTPMailServerImpl.java:201)
	at com.atlassian.mail.server.impl.SMTPMailServerImpl.send(SMTPMailServerImpl.java:149)
	at com.atlassian.support.tools.salext.mail.AbstractSupportMailQueueItem.send(AbstractSupportMailQueueItem.java:52)
	at com.atlassian.support.tools.salext.mail.SupportRequestMailQueueItem.send(SupportRequestMailQueueItem.java:54)
	at com.atlassian.mail.queue.MailQueueImpl.sendBuffer(MailQueueImpl.java:66)
	at com.atlassian.jira.service.services.mail.MailQueueService.run(MailQueueService.java:28)
	at com.atlassian.jira.service.JiraServiceContainerImpl.run(JiraServiceContainerImpl.java:61)
	at com.atlassian.jira.service.ServiceRunner.execute(ServiceRunner.java:47)
	at org.quartz.core.JobRunShell.run(JobRunShell.java:195)
	at com.atlassian.multitenant.quartz.MultiTenantThreadPool$MultiTenantRunnable.run(MultiTenantThreadPool.java:72)
	at org.quartz.simpl.SimpleThreadPool$WorkerThread.run(SimpleThreadPool.java:520)
Caused by: com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSendFailedException: 552 5.3.4 Error: message file too big
	at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.issueSendCommand(SMTPTransport.java:2114)
	at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.finishData(SMTPTransport.java:1900)
	at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.sendMessage(SMTPTransport.java:1122)
	at com.atlassian.mail.server.impl.SMTPMailServerImpl.sendWithMessageId(SMTPMailServerImpl.java:174)
	... 10 more

 

Cause

The mail server is not accepting the mail messages from JIRA.

Resolution

  • Increase the current message size limit in your mail server. JIRA will start sending mails right away.
    (info) You may need to restart the mail server.

Last modified on Mar 30, 2016

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