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Setting Email Message Size Limits in Exchange 2016

Message size limits There are basically three places where you can configure default message size limits on Exchange:

View and Set the Server's Message Size Limitations via Exchange Management Console (EMC)

To check your server’s current limit you can open and access them via Exchange Management Console (EMC), however you can use PowerShell as a method for checking message limits as well. Run the following code in the Exchange Management Shell:

get-transportconfig | ft maxsendsize, maxreceivesize 
get-receiveconnector | ft name, maxmessagesize 
get-sendconnector | ft name, maxmessagesize 
get-mailbox Administrator |ft Name, Maxsendsize, maxreceivesize

The last line of the script (Get-Mailbox) returns information only about the 'Administrator' user's mailbox. Replace 'Administrator' with the user name that you want to check. Or, you can omit the username Administrator (and any other username), and the result will be a list by username of all mailboxes that are present on the Exchange along with their respective mailbox size limits (those size limits likely being 'unlimited' because limits per mailbox were not ever set or configured - which is fine too).

get-mailbox |ft Name, Maxsendsize, maxreceivesize

After you get-transportconfig and get-receiveconnector and get-sendconnector, you can use PS Script in the Exchange Management Shell to change the existing message maximum size limits. The following example shows how to change the size of messages accepted by the transport service to 100 MB.

Set-TransportConfig -MaxSendSize 100MB -MaxReceiveSize 100MB

View and Set the Send and Receive Connectors' Message Size Limitations via Exchange Admin Center (EAC)

The easiest way (the least amount of typing) to set the maximum message size limits for the exchange send and receive connectors is to log into the Exchange Admin Center as a user with appropriate administrative privileges.

https://yourmailhostname.yourdomain.tld/ecp/

and do the following:

To confirm your changes, open the Exchange Management Shell [PS] and enter the following:

get-transportconfig | ft maxsendsize, maxreceivesize 
get-receiveconnector | ft name, maxmessagesize 
get-sendconnector | ft name, maxmessagesize 

Using the Exchange Admin Console (EAC) to Set Message Size Limits per User Mailbox

Using the Exchange Management Shell to Configure Message Size Limits per User Mailbox

Open Exchange Management Console Power Shell [PS]. Here is an example that sets the maximum size for sent messages to 50 MB and the maximum size for received messages to 36 MB for the mailbox of James Geek.

Set-Mailbox -Identity "James Geek" -MaxSendSize 50mb -MaxReceiveSize 36mb

Resources: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/mail-flow/message-size-limits?view=exchserver-2019

https://www.codetwo.com/admins-blog/exchange-attachment-size-limit-find-change/

Setting Message Size Limits Per Mailbox:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/exchange/recipients/user-mailboxes/mailbox-message-size-limits?view=exchserver-2019