Postfix (I Think) Problem

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I’m getting repeated email (KMail) error messages about one apparently over-large post:
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7 thoughts on - Postfix (I Think) Problem

  • Am 24.01.2015 um 16:10 schrieb Timothy Murphy:

    That’s Sendmail, NOT Postfix!

    main.cf doesn’t matter because Sendmail is the MTA acting here.

    See above comments. If you want to run Postfix instead of Sendmail, then run

    alternatives –config mta

    and set Postfix to be the active MTA.

    Alexander

  • It looks to me like a cron job on helen.gayleard.com attempting to fetch mail from mail.eircom.net encountered a message larger than the limit set in the local .fetchmailrc file. The oversized message should be at mail.eircom.net in whatever mailbox fetchmail was configured to poll at that server.

  • Alexander Dalloz wrote:

    I did wonder.

    However, see the reference to Postfix above. Also, sendmail is not running on this server:
    [tim@helen ~]$ sudo service sendmail status sendmail is stopped sm-client is stopped

  • Gordon Messmer wrote:

    Actually, I appended both to /etc/postfix/mail.cf
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  • You can do

    mailbox_size_limit = 0

    which will mean “unlimited”

    Just mentioning.

    Valeri

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    Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247
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  • I don’t know how big your mailbox is, but that seems like kind of a small limit. In particular, I think you’d want it to be substantially larger than a single message.