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Re: Odd locking/writing problem

2003-03-02 07:11:12
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 04:47:48PM -0700, LuKreme wrote:
On Saturday, Mar 1, 2003, at 11:46 Canada/Mountain, Robert Cardell  
wrote:
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 03:55:31PM +0000, Robert Cardell wrote:
Is there a mailbox size limit?

Yes, it is defined by your MTA  (Sendmail, postfix, etc)

% grep size_limit /etc/postfix/main.cf
bounce_size_limit = 512000
header_size_limit = 512000
mailbox_size_limit = 53687090
message_size_limit = 10736420

53,687,090 bytes is almost exactly 51MB  (1024x1024x50=52,428,800 bytes)

OK, that was the problem. I've taken the limit off for now (it was off on my
old machine), and mail's going to glx-dev again. Thanks a lot, I was barking up
the wrong tree in the wrong forest :)

What I don't understand now is why this limit affects procmail. It's an MTA
config parameter, but procmail is being run externally to the MTA (I even had
this problem running it manually). How does procmail 'know'? Surely it's not
reading the MTA configuration?

And shouldn't it give a clearer error message in this case?

MONTHFOLDER=`date +%b-%Y`
DAYFOLDER=`date +%d-%b-%Y`
YEARFOLDER=`date +%Y`

:0:
* ^List-Id:.*procmail\.lists
$MLDIR/\(UnixStuff\)/procmail.$MONTHFOLDER

Thanks for the tip.


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