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

Charles Marcus CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Thu Jun 10 17:40:46 EEST 2010


On 2010-06-09 6:40 PM, Noel Butler wrote:
> 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,

Default is 51200000 (or about 50MB), so if this is the problem, it was
changed...

> 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.

Yeah, but that's never a good idea or necessary in any regard.

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Best regards,

Charles


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