Re: Mail and file too large

> Hello all,
>
> 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.
>
> I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
> be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.
>
> For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster.
>
> If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
> delete your own text from the attached returned message.
>
>                  The mail system
>
> <pmatos@...> (expanded from <pmatos@localhost>): cannot
>   update mailbox /var/spool/mail/pmatos for user pmatos. error writing
>   message: File too large
>
> Final-Recipient: rfc822; pmatos@...
> Original-Recipient: rfc822;pmatos@localhost
> Action: failed
> Status: 5.2.2
> Diagnostic-Code: x-unix; input/output error
> -----------------------------------------------
>
> have been thrown to the gmail account through gmail smtp. Gmail seemed
> to have blocked my account and hundreds of people have been receiving
> emails from me with this kind of message. I checked the dir:
> socrates mail # pwd
> /var/spool/mail
> 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
>
> Anyone has any idea of what's happening? Since i have about 5 Gb of
> mail in gmail I would thinking keeping all the emails on a file would
> not be a good idea.