On Mon, 29 Apr 2019 14:46:18 +0200 Axel Beckert <[email protected]> wrote:
> Package: postfix
> Version: 3.1.12-0+deb9u1
> Severity: grave
> Affects: procmail
> Justfication: causes data loss (after a few days), breaks (more or less)
unrelated packages (procmail)
>
> Dear Debian Postfix Maintainers,
>
> * What led up to the situation?
>
> Since a few minutes after upgrading Postfix on Stretch from
> 3.1.9-0+deb9u2 to 3.1.12-0+deb9u1, procmail (!) on my server has been
> unable to deliver mails to mailboxes bigger than some threshold:
>
> procmail: Error while writing to "/home/abe/mbox"
> procmail: Truncated file to former size
> procmail: Error while writing to "/var/mail/abe"
> procmail: Truncated file to former size
>
> procmail itself has last been updated with the dist-upgrade of that box
> from Jessie to Stretch.
>
> This threshold seems somewhere between 472 MB and 609 MB (see below), so
> I suspect it to be 500 MB or 512 MB, as the examples of mailboxes to
> which or to which not procmail could deliver mail are clearly separated
> by their size:
Since we've failed to find a likely culprit in postfix and these are procmail
errors relating possibly to file sytem issues, is there any chance of a problem
in that direction?
>From procmail(1):
Error while writing to "x"
Nonexistent subdirectory, no write permission, pipe died or disk full.
Scott K
