* Carlos E. R. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [01-15-07 17:59]:
> The Monday 2007-01-15 at 17:39 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
 [...]
> > This is odd.  I don't understand the missing "mailbox_size_limit" in
> > main.cf.  It appeared in 9.0 and is in my 10.1 main.cf and was there
> > originally.  I did not add it.  The commenter must not have been using
> > SUSE/openSUSE.
> 
> I never said he did :-)

No, I did not mean to infer that you did.
 
> That was from the procmail list. I was googling for the error message 
> "procmail: Error while writing to", and found many occurrences of it (some 
> by you, by the way). Then it occurred to me to look directly on the 
> procmail site, searched on their list, and bingo, found that curious 
> solution.
> 
> I changed my setting from 51200000 to 100000000, and a folder that was 
> having that problem started working again - so that was the answer.

I have a max msg size but maxmbox is set to "0".  I have plenty of disk
space and "0" appears to be the SUSE/openSUSE install default.
 
> I would never occurred to me that postfix would be the cause. The real 
> problem is that procmail, even in verbose mode, does not report the cause 
> of not being able to write to the mbox - and many people have been baffled 
> by it over the years, probably.
> 
> > 
> > going further, the system was Solaris.
> 
> I didn't check that. Procmail must be widely used indeed :-)

Well, you and I use it    :^)

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