[Dovecot] "failed to store into mailbox 'INBOX': Not enough disk space." with large mail

[Stan Hoeppner]

Noel Butler put forth on 6/9/2010 5:40 PM:

> I shouldn't do lists before I finish my first coffee of teh day :->

I forgive you Noel. :)

> I missed your using system accounts so Charles may be on the right
> track, you need to find the  size of your existing mailbox,  
> search for mailbox_size_limit  if you have not altered this value in
> main.cf use postconf -d to see its value, about 50MB I think.
> 
> postfix uses a rather small value as default size limit, you may not
> have 6 MB free in that limit. alter it to 100MB or something like that.
> You can also set it to  0  to disable the limit.

After I ran into this I whipped up the docs to better help folks who run into
this problem (and save time of folks assisting, as they can just paste the
link now):

http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA/Postfix

BTW, anyone who has a 44MB INBOX should be slapped repeatedly about the
cranium and then educated about POP and IMAP, and how each should be used.

-- 
Stan