'File too large' mail delivery error

Chuck Swiger cswiger at mac.com
Sat Sep 30 09:14:24 PDT 2006


Gerard Seibert wrote:
> What could cause Postfix/Dovecot to suddenly start failing to deliver
> mail and issue this error message in the /var/log/maillog:
> 
> 
> Sep 30 09:45:24 scorpio postfix/local[1439]: 80E65C613: to=<gerard-gmail at localho
> st.seibercom.net>, relay=local, delay=6.5, delays=6.4/0.01/0/0.03, dsn=5.2.2, st
> atus=bounced (cannot update mailbox /var/mail/gerard-gmail for user gerard-gmail
> . error writing message: File too large)

Perhaps you set up user quotas or process limits (there's one for max 
filesize)...?

-- 
-Chuck


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