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Re: mail gets stuck in /var/spool/mail/$USER

2005-08-05 10:28:17
On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 11:01:53 -0700, Professional Software Engineering wrote:
At 18:45 2005-08-04 +0100, Lars Hecking wrote:
 It is possible that INBOX is exceeding the mailbox size limit as
 configured in postfix. Check with "postconf mailbox_size_limit", and
 compare with the actual size of the file.

The searchable list archives are your friend.

<http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/procmail/2005-02/msg00074.html>

Seems queer that postfix could exert mailbox size limits to a
non-system mailbox - PROCMAIL is doing the delivery at that point - 

... plus, when procmail fails to deliver it, where's it going?

FWIW, when I make a Royal Mess of my procmail recipes here (none 
of which reference or drop mail into /var/spool/mail/$MyUserId),
it dumps the email into -- Taa-Daa - /var/spool/mail/$MyUserId.

Maybe some Last Gasp, Near Death protocol in procmail.  Or, more
likely (in my case(s)), the Normal Thing To Do when procmail `exit`s
(even abnormally) when it has not been told explicitly what to do with 
the email.

What do your VERBOSE procmail logs tell you?

Jonesy
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