451 4.3.0 Temporary internal failure

[Nutsch]

thx

On 2015-08-04 14:03, Urban Loesch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> that should be:
>
> # Directory in which LDA/LMTP temporarily stores incoming mails >128 kB.
> #mail_temp_dir = /tmp
>
> Best
> Urban
>
> Am 04.08.2015 um 12:36 schrieb Nutsch:
>> Hi,
>>
>> OS: Debian GNU/Linux 7
>>
>> df -hT
>> Filesystem     Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/vzfs      reiserfs   30G   12G   19G  38% /
>>
>> /etc/fstab
>> proc  /proc       proc    defaults    0    0
>> none  /dev/pts    devpts  rw,gid=5,mode=620    0    0
>> none  /run/shm    tmpfs   defaults    0    0
>>
>>
>> If someone knows an option to change the tmp directory in dovecot.conf, it would be very helpful. I can't find it.
>> I can't increase the size of tmp, its not an partition and even my provider don't knows how it can be possible that the tmp directory is limited to 1 MB.
>>
>> Regards
>> Noctua
>>
>> On 2015-08-03 20:20, Urban Loesch wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> according to dovecot.conf lmtp stores all mails temporarily in "/tmp/" that are bigger than 256KB. You can change the directory in dovecot.conf or
>>> you should increase the /tmp/ size. It could be that /tmp/ is a ramdisk. Check /etc/fstab.
>>>
>>> Which os you are using?
>>> What does "df -hT" say?
>>> What does /etc/fstab say?
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Urban
>>>
>>> Am 03.08.2015 um 19:54 schrieb Nutsch:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> i can send mails without problems in any direction, except when the
>>>> attachments are bigger than 1 MB. I alway get this message
>>>>
>>>> relay=mail.example.net[private/dovecot-lmtp], delay=35155,
>>>> delays=35155/0.03/0.02/0.09, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (host
>>>> mail.example.net[private/dovecot-lmtp] said: 451 4.3.0 Temporary
>>>> internal failure (in reply to end of DATA command)) Aug  3 19:34:34
>>>> 46185 dovecot: lmtp(6477): Disconnect from local: Temporary internal
>>>> failure (in DATA)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> postconf message_size_limit
>>>> message_size_limit = 0
>>>> postconf mail_size_limit
>>>> mailbox_size_limit = 0
>>>>
>>>> i can send big attachments to an extern address but not from intern to
>>>> intern. Someone said that maybe the tmp directory is the problem so i
>>>> checked the size.
>>>>
>>>> ls -ald /tmp/; df -h /tmp/
>>>> drwxrwxrwt 4 root root 80 Aug  3 19:44 /tmp/
>>>> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>>> -               1,0M  4,0K 1020K   1% /tmp
>>>> root at example:/tmp#
>>>>
>>>> is there a connection between lmtp and the size of the tmp directory?
>>>> And why is the size 1,0M, tmp is not an own partion. Should i increase
>>>> the size? And if yes, how?
>>>>
>>>> df -h
>>>> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>>> /dev/vzfs        80G   12G   69G  15% /
>>>>
>>>> ???
>>>>
>>>> br. noctua