On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Juan Bernhard wrote: > Hello Renaud, my question was for the 27 part from "defer(27)". Anyway, > this error is beyond the smtp codes, it happens when the server > (appendfile transport I guess ?) tries to write the message on the mbox > file. I wrote a copy of the debug message on the first mail. > > The online manual describes well the defer, but it doesnt not describes > the meaning of each code.
That's probably because it is just reporting what the operating system returned when it tried that operation. Look in /usr/include/sys/errno.h, wherein my Solaris 9: #define EFBIG 27 /* File too large */ Jethro. > > Thanks, > Juan. > > > El 07/01/2010 15:39, Renaud Allard escribi?: > > Hello Juan, > > > > Juan Bernhard wrote: > >> Hi John, thanks for your answer, but Solaris 10 (this problem was on > >> Solaris 9) can handle larger files than 2gb, the restriction isn't on > >> the ufs. The first thing I tried was '$cat 500mb-file >> 2gb-file' > >> (with the same permission that the user) and worked fine. > >> > >> I really need to know what "defer (27)" means, so I can start looking > >> to that. I couldn't find this on the user manual. > >> > > > > Defer means the sending MTA receives a 4xx error message, which is a > > temporary error. So the sending MTA should send that mail again in the > > future. > > This is well described in the manual, you should probably download the > > PDF version of the manual, which is easily searchable. There is also > > an online version where you can make searches, but I don't remember > > how to access it right now. > > -- > _________________________________________________ > Juan Guillermo Bernhard > INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TECNOLOG?A INDUSTRIAL > DEPARTAMENTO DE INFORM?TICA > DIVISI?N DE OPERACIONES > Tel?fono (54 11) 4724-6200 / 6300 / 6400 > Interno 6739 > [email protected] > _________________________________________________ > 0800 444 4004 | www.inti.gov.ar > > > > -- > ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users > ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ > ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/ > . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jethro R Binks Computing Officer, IT Services, University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
