RSA Identity Governance and Lifecycle reports fail to send emails with error SMTPSendFailedException:552 5.3.4 Message size exceeds fixed maximum message size
2 years ago
Originally Published: 2017-09-13
Article Number
000041542
Applies To
RSA Product Set: Identity Governance and Lifecycle
RSA Version/Condition: 6.x, 7.x
 
Issue
The following error is received when emails with the reports as an attachment are sent after the reports/scheduled reports are run.    For example, when a report is executed and email is sent with the report as an attachment named All Application Entitlements&Groups Report.CSV, the following error is seen in the aveksaServer.log: 
<span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
09/05/2017 
04:32:53.828 ERROR (EmailSenderServiceProvider) [com.aveksa.server.email.sender.EmailSenderServiceProvider] 
FAILED method=SendEmail subTask=processMessage EmailLogMessage{messageData='From: <sender-email>
</span></span>To: <receipient-email><span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
Message-ID: <AV-6355-REF.1054519700.14851504600121791.JavaMail.oracle@servername.com>
Subject: New "All Application Entitlements&Groups Report" report results
 available 9/5/17 4:20 AM
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; 
	boundary="----=_Part_185_1918193552.1504600121791"
X-Priority: 3
X-Aveksa-Message-Reference: AV-6355-REF

------=_Part_185_1918193552.1504600121791
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

<html><body>Results for report: All Application Entitlements&Groups Report
Saved on: 9/5/17 4:28 AM
Comment: Scheduled Report
	
Dear Admin, 
You are receiving this email as the attached report needs action taken. Please review this report for critical missing information on the 
application feed. Please update the feed within 5 business days.

Thank You, 

------=_Part_185_1918193552.1504600121791
Content-Type: application/octet-stream; 
	name="All Application Entitlements&Groups Report.CSV"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment; 
	filename="All Application Entitlements&Groups Report.CSV"

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RGF0YXNldCIsIkFTSUMgUHVibGljIFJlcG9ydGluZyAtIEFTSUMgT1RDIFBvc2l0aW9uIDogZHRj
Y19kcy5hc2ljLm90Y19wb3NpdGlvbiIsIkFTSUMgUHVibGljIFJlcG9ydGluZyBBU0lDIE9UQyBQ
IiwiQ049RkFfVEZfRmlsZXhmZXJfUHJvZF9Eb3dubG9hZC1QUkMsT1U9RUZUIEFwcGxpY2F0aW9u
.............
QFhBQ1Q6USIsIlhJUiBOb24tUmVzdHJpY3RlZCBSZXBvcnRzIiwiMTIyNDciCiwiWElSQFhBQ1Q6
VCIsIlhJUiBOb24tUmVzdHJpY3RlZCBSZXBvcnRzIiwiMTIyNDciCiwiWElSQFhBQ1Q6VSIsIlhJ
UiBOb24tUmVzdHJpY3RlZCBSZXBvcnRzIiwiMTIyNDciCiwiWkJSQURNOkEiCiwiWkJSQURNOlAi
CiwiWkJSQURNOlEiCiwiWkJSQURNOlQiCiwiWkJSQURNOlUiCg==

------=_Part_185_1918193552.1504600121791--
', id=6355, senderAccountName='general', msgType='WFE_RP', msgIDWithinMsgType='39202', 
messageID='<AV-6355-REF.1054519700.14851504600121791.JavaMail.oracle@servername.com>', isOutbound='Y', 
subject='New "All Application Entitlements&Groups Report" report results available9/5/17 4:20 AM', fromStr='<sender-email>', 
toCnt=1, toStr='receiver-email', ccCnt=0, ccStr='', bccCnt=0, bccStr='', insertTime=2017-09-05 04:28:44.260622, 
completedTime=Tue Sep 05 04:32:39 EDT 2017, processAction='null'} 
com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPSendFailedException: 552 5.3.4 Message size exceeds fixed maximum message size

	at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.issueSendCommand(SMTPTransport.java:1388)
	at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.finishData(SMTPTransport.java:1215)
	at com.sun.mail.smtp.SMTPTransport.sendMessage(SMTPTransport.java:586)
	at com.aveksa.server.email.EmailClient.sendEmail(EmailClient.java:306)
	at com.aveksa.server.email.sender.EmailSenderServiceProvider.processMessage(EmailSenderServiceProvider.java:334)
	at com.aveksa.server.email.sender.EmailSenderServiceProvider.processMessageBatch(EmailSenderServiceProvider.java:256)
	at com.aveksa.server.email.sender.EmailSenderServiceProvider.processMail(EmailSenderServiceProvider.java:204)
	at com.aveksa.server.email.sender.EmailSenderThread.run(EmailSenderThread.java:42)
	
09/05/2017 04:38:04.147 DEBUG (EmailSenderServiceProvider) [com.aveksa.server.email.sender.EmailSenderThread] Running Loop 
to check for mail to send.</span></span></span>
Cause
The error message states that the SMTP server settings do not allow messages with attachments over a certain size. 

Error 552 ‘5.3.4 Message size exceeds fixed maximum message size’ is an email error commonly seen, when the message is too large for the SMTP server to handle, the mail stays in the mailbox and errors like the above will be printed in logs.

Every mail server has custom settings for the size of emails users can send and receive through it. These limits can either be global, individual-account specific or both. To limit bandwidth usage, this email size limit is often restricted to a few MBs in most servers.  If the email size exceeds that limit, it will be rejected by the mail server.




 
Resolution
You need to contact your SMTP/mail server administrator to check and increase the message size for incoming and outgoing emails.  Please also note that the attachment size and message sizes are different.  

For example, on Microsoft Exchange mail servers, content conversion happens for email. The Exchange server converts an internet/MIME message to MAPI/Exchange format, and vice versa for transmission. After this content conversion process, the message size generally increases by about 30%.  As a result, a message of 9 MB may fail to deliver to a server with a size limit of 10 MB.
 

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