[Dovecot] Evolution: DATA command failed: Requested mail action aborted: exceeded storage allocation.

Bill Cole dovecot-20061108 at billmail.scconsult.com
Sun Dec 3 21:04:27 UTC 2006


At 12:23 PM -0800 12/3/06, Rob Frohne wrote:
>Hi Everyone,
>
>I have been recently getting these errors in Evolution 2.6.1.  I think
>it is a client issue, as I don't see them using Thunderbird on the same
>machine (though I get a lot of "disconnected from servers" from
>Thunderbird.  On Evolution 2.8.1 on another machine I haven't noticed
>these issues.
>
>DATA command failed: Requested mail action aborted: exceeded storage
>allocation.
>
>It seems that it happens when my sent messages are attempted to be
>stored on my IMAP sent folder on the server (running dovecot 1rc15, and
>OS X.
>
>I can't find any hints in the mail.log on the server or the system.log
>on the server, or the system.log on the client.
>
>Any idea on how to troubleshoot this?

DATA is an SMTP command, so that looks like a problem with sending 
mail, not storing it. Look for the root of the problem on the SMTP 
server that client is using to send mail.

-- 
Bill Cole
bill at scconsult.com



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