[TriLUG] mbox limit with postfix?

[Benjamin Reed]

On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 07:54 PM, Jason Tower wrote:

> the mailbox was about 70MB, 1000 or so messages (copied from ms 
> outlook to the
> server via imap, part of a new mail server installation).  imap had no
> trouble reading/writing it.  this was on a pretty stock redhat 8.0
> installation with the standard postfix and UW imap rpms.  after i 
> broke the
> file up into smaller pieces postfix was fine.  using direct delivery, 
> not
> procmail (that will come later).
>
> anyone got a line on this?  does postfix have some sort of limitation 
> on how
> big a mbox it can write to?

It's got a limit, but it's configurable.  I'm not sure what the 
defaults are on redhat, but you can do:

mailbox_size_limit = 100000000

...or something similar in your main.cf to make the limit higher.