[Dovecot] save failed to INBOX: Not enough disk space

Osvaldo Alvarez Pozo nebano at gmail.com
Wed Jun 8 15:31:12 EEST 2011


Hi
according to dovecot -a:

mail_temp_dir = /tmp

and df -h gives

/dev/sda3             942M   18M  877M   2% /tmp

Thanks


2011/6/8 Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi>:
> On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 14:04 +0200, Tom Hendrikx wrote:
>> > This means that a write() (or some other syscall) returned either ENOSPC
>> > or EDQUOT error message, or that quota plugin decided user is out of
>> > quota.
>> >
>> >> There is enougth space on disk. and I am not using quota plugin on lmtp
>> >
>> > What about filesystem quota?
>> >
>>
>> I remember there were similar issues in the past, due to the fact that
>> messages larger than 128kb were temporarily stored on disk in the users
>> homedir. Maybe this is related?
>
> That would have given a temporary failure, not an "out of disk space"
> error. Also nowadays even that doesn't happen, the message is simply
> read fully into memory.
>
> Although I guess it wouldn't hurt to check if /tmp is full
> (mail_temp_dir defaults to /tmp again).
>
>
>


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