From: mouss (mlist.onlyfree.fr)
Date: Sun Dec 16 2007 - 07:37:36 CST

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Madison Kelly wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've got something of a big problem... My mail server is postfix
> 2.3.8-2+b1 on Debian Sarge. I started getting a user have all their mail
> bounce with this error:
>
> -=-=-=-=-=-
> This is the mail system at host cluster.nouvelocity.com.
>
> I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not
> be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.
>
> For further assistance, please send mail to postmaster.
>
> If you do so, please include this problem report. You can
> delete your own text from the attached returned message.
>
> The mail system
>
> <philroenouvelocity.com>: delivery failed to mailbox
> /email/nouvelocity.com/philroe/inbox: error writing message: File
> too large
> -=-=-=-=-=-
>
> That file is 49MB (51,200,448 bytes). The filesystem itself is fine...
> If I move the 'inbox' file out of the way, a new, null file is created
> and email starts coming in again.
>
> This *sounds* like a quota or some such, but I didn't set any during
> config... Any idea what might be going on? This is my boss's email,
> soooo... :P

If you set no limits, the default values are used. In particular,
        http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#message_size_limit
        http://www.postfix.org/postconf.5.html#mailbox_size_limit

running

# postconf somevariable

will show the value of somevariable.

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