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The Wednesday 2005-08-31 at 20:39 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote: Yeah, this was long ago, but I was having the same problem now and then: > procmail: Assigning "LASTFOLDER=/home/cer/Mail/in_foo" > procmail: Opening "/home/cer/Mail/in_foo" > procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock > procmail: Error while writing to "/home/cer/Mail/in_foo" > procmail: Truncated file to former size > > A write error. What write error? The problem is caused by postfix "mailbox_size_limit" setting! <http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/procmail/2006-10/msg00040.html> |> Thank you, that was it. I was getting the error from procmail so I |> didn't think to look at postfix, but it turns out it sets a ulimit |> before spawning the delivery agent, so procmail inherits the limit from |> postfix. |> |> If would be nice if procmail told you *what* error it encountered, at |> least in verbose mode. If I'd seen that it was exceeding the file size |> limit (write returns EFBIG) I'd probably have thought to look in the |> right place. |> |> Anyway, for the benefit of people who google or search the procmail list |> archive and have this same problem, the postfix parameter is |> mailbox_size_limit and does NOT appear in the main.cf supplied with the |> source, but is documented in sample/sample-local.cf so you can copy that |> portion into main.cf and change the limit. And it works. :-) - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFq9t3tTMYHG2NR9URApPrAJ9VKO//iIoXmsCP/GeUugwFPCPoJQCgjXDJ gh51QW0V/3K/PDsV/fbBp14= =gCEY -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
