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

Charles Marcus CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com
Tue Jun 22 00:43:21 EEST 2010


On 2010-06-21 5:31 PM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> Charles Marcus put forth on 6/21/2010 12:23 PM:
>> On 2010-06-21 12:20 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>>> Set in /etc/postfix/main.cf
>>>
>>> mailbox_size_limit = 0

>> That's generally never a good idea (sets it to unlimited). Much better
>> to just set it to a sane limit.

> That's a purely subjective statement Charles.  mailbox_size_limit is
> a "poor man's" disk quota system and was designed strictly to be used
> by Postfix only when Postfix is doing local delivery.

Actually, since I don't use mbox, I confused this with message_size_limit...

So... never mind... ;)


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