[Dovecot] Sieve problem. Timo, is this mbox file size limitation hard coded? If so, why?

Patrick Nagel mail at patrick-nagel.net
Wed May 12 06:45:19 EEST 2010


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Hi,

On 2010-05-12 11:31, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>> From http://wiki.dovecot.org/LDA:
>>
>> "Note that Postfix's mailbox_size_limit setting applies to all files
>> that are written to. So if you have a limit of 50 MB, deliver can't
>> write to log files larger than 50 MB and you'll start getting temporary
>> failures."
> 
> No wonder I didn't find it.  It's buried in the "logging" section of the
> main LDA page instead of the Postfix section, where one would assume to find
> _Postfix specific_ LDA information.
> 
> Timo, any chance we could get this text moved into an appropriate place on
> the Postfix LDA page where it belongs?  I'm sure it would be very helpful to
> future Postfix/LDA/mbox users.  And also add the error message they'll see
> in the logs when they run into this problem, something like:
> 
> Jan 1 00:00:00 hostname dovecot: deliver(user): write() failed with mbox
> file /home/user/mail/foo: File too large

It's a Wiki, why don't you just change it? :)

Patrick.

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