451 4.3.0 Temporary internal failure

[Urban Loesch]

Hi,

that should be:

# Directory in which LDA/LMTP temporarily stores incoming mails >128 kB.
#mail_temp_dir = /tmp

Best
Urban

Am 04.08.2015 um 12:36 schrieb Nutsch:
> Hi,
> 
> OS: Debian GNU/Linux 7
> 
> df -hT
> Filesystem     Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/vzfs      reiserfs   30G   12G   19G  38% /
> 
> /etc/fstab
> proc  /proc       proc    defaults    0    0
> none  /dev/pts    devpts  rw,gid=5,mode=620    0    0
> none  /run/shm    tmpfs   defaults    0    0
> 
> 
> If someone knows an option to change the tmp directory in dovecot.conf, it would be very helpful. I can't find it.
> I can't increase the size of tmp, its not an partition and even my provider don't knows how it can be possible that the tmp directory is limited to 1 MB.
> 
> Regards
> Noctua
> 
> On 2015-08-03 20:20, Urban Loesch wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> according to dovecot.conf lmtp stores all mails temporarily in "/tmp/" that are bigger than 256KB. You can change the directory in dovecot.conf or
>> you should increase the /tmp/ size. It could be that /tmp/ is a ramdisk. Check /etc/fstab.
>>
>> Which os you are using?
>> What does "df -hT" say?
>> What does /etc/fstab say?
>>
>> Regards
>> Urban
>>
>> Am 03.08.2015 um 19:54 schrieb Nutsch:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> i can send mails without problems in any direction, except when the
>>> attachments are bigger than 1 MB. I alway get this message
>>>
>>> relay=mail.example.net[private/dovecot-lmtp], delay=35155,
>>> delays=35155/0.03/0.02/0.09, dsn=4.3.0, status=deferred (host
>>> mail.example.net[private/dovecot-lmtp] said: 451 4.3.0 Temporary
>>> internal failure (in reply to end of DATA command)) Aug  3 19:34:34
>>> 46185 dovecot: lmtp(6477): Disconnect from local: Temporary internal
>>> failure (in DATA)
>>>
>>>
>>> postconf message_size_limit
>>> message_size_limit = 0
>>> postconf mail_size_limit
>>> mailbox_size_limit = 0
>>>
>>> i can send big attachments to an extern address but not from intern to
>>> intern. Someone said that maybe the tmp directory is the problem so i
>>> checked the size.
>>>
>>> ls -ald /tmp/; df -h /tmp/
>>> drwxrwxrwt 4 root root 80 Aug  3 19:44 /tmp/
>>> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>> -               1,0M  4,0K 1020K   1% /tmp
>>> root at example:/tmp#
>>>
>>> is there a connection between lmtp and the size of the tmp directory?
>>> And why is the size 1,0M, tmp is not an own partion. Should i increase
>>> the size? And if yes, how?
>>>
>>> df -h
>>> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>> /dev/vzfs        80G   12G   69G  15% /
>>>
>>> ???
>>>
>>> br. noctua
>