[TriLUG] mbox limit with postfix?

[Tanner Lovelace]

On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 19:54, Jason Tower wrote:
> i got this undelivered/returned to sender mail earlier today while setting up 
> a mail server for a customer:
> 
> The Postfix program cannot access mailbox /var/mail/xxxxx for user xxxxx.
>     error writing message: File too large
> 
> 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?

Actually, are you sure it's postfix?  Most linux installations these
days use procmail as the local delivery agent.  That's what postfix
would be giving the message to and it would write to the file.  
Since you said imap had no problem with it, I would look to your
local delivery agent. (And if you find out anything, please post
it here.)

Cheers,
Tanner
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