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

2005-08-05 10:29:26
On Thu, 04 Aug 2005, Lars Hecking wrote:


procmail: Opening "/home/sharukh/mail/INBOX"
procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock
procmail: Error while writing to "/home/sharukh/mail/INBOX"
procmail: Truncated file to former size

 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.

Okay, you hit the nail on the head. mailbox_size_limit is set to 51200000.
So I added the line mailbox_size_limit = 102400000 to
/etc/postfix/main.cf.

I then did mv INBOX.old INBOX. I could now recieve new mails in the old
INBOX which was over 50mb. I didn't even need to reload postfix. 

The funny thing is, it still works even after commenting out the line 
mailbox_size_limit = 102400000  in main.cf.

The mailbox is now over 55 mb and seems to be working fine. Maybe it was
that the mailbox got stuck at a particular size ?

regards and thanks for the prompt help,

Sharukh.
-- 
Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri.                        Homoeopath, Linuxer.
    MATH AND ALCOHOL DON'T MIX. Please don't drink and derive.--
               Mathematicians against drunk deriving.

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