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Re: Mail and file too large

by Magnus Bäck :: Rate this Message:

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On Friday, July 11, 2008 at 17:29 CEST,
     "Paulo J. Matos" <pocm@...> wrote:

> Something terrible happened. I have the smtpd server working (or so it
> seems) and fetchmail was supposed to get my gmail messages and send
> them to postfix. Postfix was supposed to keep them locally so I could
> check them, however, something is happening that messages of the form:
> -----------------------------------------------
> This is the mail system at host socrates.localdomain.

[...]

Next time post log entries instead of bounce messages.

> <pmatos@...> (expanded from <pmatos@localhost>): cannot
>    update mailbox /var/spool/mail/pmatos for user pmatos. error writing
>    message: File too large

[...]

> socrates mail # ls -la
> total 50072
> drwxrwxr-x 2 root   mail     4096 Jul 11 15:03 .
> drwxr-xr-x 7 root   root     4096 Jul  7 21:32 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root   root        0 May 17 22:14 .keep_net-mail_mailbase-0
> -rw------- 1 pmatos mail 51199575 Jul 11 15:03 pmatos
> -rw------- 1 root   mail     5841 Jul 11 11:34 root

http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#mailbox_size_limit

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