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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 Description of problem: Lots of my users tend to use "Leave Mail On Server" options in various MUA's using POP3 or IMAP. Procmail has a default 50mb limit on mailbox size, so it starts hitting the limit and bouncing pretty quickly when they start mailing around image documents and such. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): procmail-3.22-7 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Set up procmail at MTA using sendmail or postfix 2. mail enough mail to make a 49.9 meg mailbox file. 3. mail again to that account Actual Results: Mail bounces Expected Results: Mail should not bounce Additional info: 50mb is too small with the usual kind of corporate user. A config param or command line param is needed.
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I have a 61MB mbox file on nfs which seems to be getting mail from procmail ok. Does it depend on the type of fs?
http://lists.debian.org/debian-isp/2002/debian-isp-200208/msg00203.html
No wonder I couldn't find this in the procmail source or docs. Using mailbox_size_limit fixed the problem for me.
Ok, good. Comments to Jay Thorne: Are you sure this also happens with sendmail? I can only find reports on this for postfix. AFAICT procmail itself doesn't impose any mailbox size limits.
Postfix imposes a limit on mailbox size to prevent runaway writing during local delivery. The parameter which controls this is "mailbox_size_limit", it defaults to 50 Mb. All you should need to do is set this parameter higher in your main.cf file. You can fild an example and documentation here: /usr/share/doc/postfix-*/samples/sample-local.cf
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