On Fri, Aug 09, 2013 at 03:37:27PM +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Vincent McIntyre <vincent.mcint...@csiro.au>: > > > mailbox_size_limit = 5120000000 #5-ish Gb > ... > > > Aug 8 14:22:17 ursa postfix/local[24324]: A88FA35028: > > to=<hapl...@mailserver.atnf.csiro.au>, relay=local, delay=0.71, > > delays=0.59/0/0/0.13, dsn=5.2.2, status=bounced (cannot update mailbox > > /var/mail/hapless for user hapless. error writing message: File too > > large) > > > > A new message appeared for each new message delivery attempt. > > > > But the mailbox file size was 787Mb, well under the limit of 5Gb. > > This was measured with 'ls', 'du' and 'wc'. > > 5120000000 - 4*1024^3 = 825032704 > > 825032704/1024^2 > 786 > > So maybe what you're seeing is a 4GB overflow.
This idea fits the data quite well. It's a 64bit system though. That means the overflow would likely be in postfix, doesn't it? Yet Wietse points out that "File too large" is a message that comes from the kernel. I didn't run strace at the time this was happening, but perhaps I can try to reproduce it now. Thanks for your replies. Vince
