OS X MAIL ERROR - "The server response was: Message Size Violation"

I'm seeing the same thing with Mail 7.2 and iCloud today. a 512kb zip will not send as an attachment.

Sending the message content to the server failed.

The server response was: Message Size Violation

Me too. I also got this error. Sending it through webmail worked around the issue, doesn't make it acceptable though.

Just had exactly the same Message Size Violation happen to me trying to send a 3.1 MB attachment. But the Apple help page tells me I can send up to 20MB. Rather annoying and as I use Mail all the time (as I'm sure due thousands of others) it needs sorting. But thanks for the iCloud Web mail tip. A work around but not really a solution......

angry_user wrote:

The CONCLUSION:

OS X Mail client has a bug, Web Mail client has not.

Anybody knows what I can do to make Mail client usable?

If this is a 'Mail Client bug', why do I not suffer with the same problem?

Having the same problem. Mails with attachments bigger than 1 MB is rejected, both when sending and receiving.

Just got same problem - never happened before. Attachment size is 1.2MB and is classed as message size violation! Is this nuts?

Csound: send a Pages document from another email address to your iCloud address and report back whether it gets through. My iCloud will not receive Pages documents of any size along with other compressed/zipped files. They bounce EVERY time even when very small. If I export as a PDF / Word file no problem and my other email accounts receive Pages no problem also. Frankly embarrassing that apple mail can't receive an apple product attachment and very annoying that it hasn't been fixed after a long time!

That works fine for me.

I can send attachments (any type) up to the iCloud email size limits and (using mail drop) I can send attachments up to 5GB.

But I don't use Pages normally, it's a mess.

By means of testing, I have today sent a small Pages document to a number of people with iCloud accounts - each one as a separate email. Every single one bounced back with message size violation. If that's not a bug I don't know what is. Just to remind: Pages documents are automatically zipped. All these accounts receive other attachments no problem - it just applies to zip files.

manofdogz wrote:

By means of testing, I have today sent a small Pages document to a number of people with iCloud accounts - each one as a separate email. Every single one bounced back with message size violation. If that's not a bug I don't know what is. Just to remind: Pages documents are automatically zipped. All these accounts receive other attachments no problem - it just applies to zip files.

Pages documents I send are not 'automatically' zipped, which version of Pages are you using?

Pages 5.5.2

As I understand it a .5xx pages file (.pages) is actually a folder and is therefore compressed into a zip file when emailing. Certainly, when you email a .pages file (recent version), it arrives as a .Zip even though you don't compress it. I'm pretty sure this was NOT the case with earlier versions.

The key thing here however, is not so much sending a .pages file or any other.zip file - these can be sent by iCloud quite happily. It is about why iCloud won't receive them. If I send a .pages or .zip file from iCloud to my business email, it arrives without any problem. If I send to my iCloud address I get the message size violation - every time.

And just to re-iterate, I have tried sending Zips and Pages files to several other iCloud accounts and they ALL had the same issue.

Did you ever found a solution? I have the same problem for weeks.