[Dovecot] save failed to INBOX: Not enough disk space

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Jun 8 15:11:21 EEST 2011


On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 14:04 +0200, Tom Hendrikx wrote:
> > This means that a write() (or some other syscall) returned either ENOSPC
> > or EDQUOT error message, or that quota plugin decided user is out of
> > quota.
> > 
> >> There is enougth space on disk. and I am not using quota plugin on lmtp
> > 
> > What about filesystem quota?
> > 
> 
> I remember there were similar issues in the past, due to the fact that
> messages larger than 128kb were temporarily stored on disk in the users
> homedir. Maybe this is related?

That would have given a temporary failure, not an "out of disk space"
error. Also nowadays even that doesn't happen, the message is simply
read fully into memory.

Although I guess it wouldn't hurt to check if /tmp is full
(mail_temp_dir defaults to /tmp again).




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