[Dovecot] procmail -> deliver: file too large

[Seth Mattinen]

Jim Rosenberg wrote:
> I am using procmail with deliver as recommended on the wiki to send mail
> snagged by SpamAssassin straight to a spam folder. It seemed to be working
> fine, but now I'm finding messages like this:
> 
> Sep 17 12:13:47 hosty deliver(whoey): write() failed with mbox file /var/mail/whoey: File too large
> 
> I don't think this is a setrlimit problem -- the host operating system is
> OpenBSD 4.0. My dovecot version is 1.0.13. Is there a maximum size used by
> deliver? Or is this a procmail problem? It looks like the message is coming
> from deliver.
> 
> I don't think this is a postfix problem -- my max message size 33M in
> postfix.
> 


How big is the mbox file '/var/mail/whoey'? My guess is you've exceeded
the maximum file size of your file system or operating system causing
write() to fail.

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