Undeliverable mail does NOT loop unless you configure a loop.
Perhaps you can share some configuration information so that I can
help you point to the problem.

        Wietse

Ian! D. Allen:
> I just upgraded Linux distributions and am using a new version of
> postfix that has a new limit: "mailbox_size_limit", which defaults
> to around 50MB.
>
> I save all my incoming email in a file. (The save file name is in my
> $HOME/.forward file.) I'm also my own postmaster on my machine.
>
> You can see what's coming.
>
> Naturally, when postfix decided that my incoming email file was too big,
> it sent me a bounce email to tell me. BOOM. Massive mail loop.
>
> Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; cannot append message to destination file
> /home/idallen/incomingmail: error writing message: File too large
>
> Could postfix be made to detect this somehow and not loop?
>
> I've increased mailbox_size_limit for the moment; but, if I ever do
> hit the limit, another mail loop will result.
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