* 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 :^) -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 OpenSUSE Linux http://en.opensuse.org/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
