On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 11:09:43PM +0200, Johan Ferner wrote:
> First off, OK. It's a feature, not a bug. I got annoyed because nothing 
> actually told me what the problem was.
> 
> Yoann Vandoorselaere wrote:
> 
> >I doubt your mail got forwarded to /dev/null. In such case the MTA will
> >just answer to the sender that the user have no more space. It's up to
> >the sender to resend the message later.
> > 
> >
> True, and false. True: The senders got an email message. False: They 
> received the following message (also in my /var/log/mail/info log):
> 
> status=bounced (can't create user output file. Command
> output: procmail: Error while writing to "/var/spool/mail/johanf"
> 
> 
> When I had a procmailrc file, they got an error message about procmail 
> not being able to lock a mailfile. I removed the procmail file and the 
> real error jump up. Very confusing. But that is probably something for 
> the postfix maintainer.
> I also greped through /etc/postfix/* and got no matches for the mailbox 
> size limit parameter... How am I supposed to know what it is before it 
> hits me? Ah... I see.. In the release_notes. I'll read those more 
> carefully in the future :)
> I'll set this a little higher then.

where is it documented? Can it be removed?
I reported the same error on 8.2 beta 1, but never got
a response. 

Keld

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