Bug 88214 – procmail has default 50mb limit for mailbox files

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Bug 88214 - procmail has default 50mb limit for mailbox files

Summary:	procmail has default 50mb limit for mailbox files

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	postfix (Show other bugs)
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Version:	9
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity high
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Assigned To:	John Dennis
QA Contact:	David Lawrence
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Duplicates:	97883 110687 113396 (view as bug list)
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Reported:	2003-04-07 14:33 EDT by Jay Thorne
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:52 EDT (History)
CC List:	6 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2004-01-12 13:35:59 EST
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Description Jay Thorne 2003-04-07 14:33:22 EDT

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.

Comment 1 Jens Petersen 2004-01-05 20:19:12 EST

*** Bug 97883 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Jens Petersen 2004-01-05 20:20:06 EST

*** Bug 110687 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Jens Petersen 2004-01-05 22:43:30 EST

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?

Comment 4 Jens Petersen 2004-01-05 22:49:27 EST

http://lists.debian.org/debian-isp/2002/debian-isp-200208/msg00203.html

Comment 5 Ian Macdonald 2004-01-05 23:29:08 EST

No wonder I couldn't find this in the procmail source or docs. Using
mailbox_size_limit fixed the problem for me.

Comment 6 Jens Petersen 2004-01-06 02:48:04 EST

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.

Comment 8 John Dennis 2004-01-12 13:35:59 EST

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

Comment 9 John Dennis 2004-01-20 09:47:01 EST

*** Bug 113396 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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