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.
> 
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