Description of problem: I've seen this twice now, on two different 49 meg mail files: procmail: Opening "spam" procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock procmail: Error while writing to "spam" procmail: Truncated file to former size procmail: Unlocking "spam.lock" Whenever I see this, file spam is always size 50056. Contrast this to another write to an email file that is smaller: procmail: Opening "fedora-list" procmail: Acquiring kernel-lock procmail: Notified comsat: "joshua@5921064:/home/joshua/mail/fedora-list" From fedora-list-admin Tue Jan 13 10:30:18 2004 Subject: Enable ACPI and Laptop under Fedora Core 1 Folder: fedora-list Dmesg and /var/log/messages not showing anything interesting... this doesn't seem to be a system or resource failure... just procmail Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): RHEL3 AS with all updates How reproducible: Creat a valid, non-corrupt email file with 48 megs or so of email... then watch procmail choke when it gets up to 49 to 50 megs in size.
Presumably you're using postfix as your mta? postfix defaults to a maximum mbox size of 50MB.
This is a duplicate of bug 88214. Postfix has a mailbox size limit which defaults to 50 MB, you can override this parameter, please see bug 88214 for how to do this. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 88214 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.
FYI: parametr "mailbox_size_limit" in local.cf.