Comments on: 49MB mailbox size limit (Postfix & procmail)

By: 0verl0rd

0verl0rd — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 09:45:11 +0000

Saved my butt. I’ve inherited an ancient mail system that runs procmail, system-wide. LOVE YOU MEEEN! :)

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:45:58 +0000

Thanks a lot :)

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:53:21 +0000

Thanks! This problem had been bugging me for a while, I was assuming it was some bizarre procmail limitation and searched the mailing lists in vain. Every few months my spam mbox overflows 50 Mb and then it would deliver them all as if they hadn’t matched the spam rules which was totally obnoxious.

By: Robin Lozano | slendertone belt

Robin Lozano | slendertone belt — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 03:07:14 +0000

my hosting company is so good that they fixed it for me in past but I am more than happy to know the procedure myself. Thanks for sharing it.

By: Ping

Ping — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:51:23 +0000

Thank you for posting this tip! It saved me this morning.

By: Luk

Luk — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:04:28 +0000

Thank you… this is this, what the Internet is about… just share with the piece of information and for sure someone will find it useful.

By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 14:41:25 +0000

Thanks! Had the same problem and was errantly looking at procmail as the culprit.

By: ego

ego — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:09:49 +0000

Hey,

Thanks a lot.. Faced the same problem this morning, and was wondering what was wrong with procmail. on googling found this post, and it helped.

By: Angeen

Angeen — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:37:08 +0000

I’m so glad there are still people who unselfish and generously help others.

Thank you very much.

stan

By: uli

uli — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 07:20:34 +0000

good job.

really helped me out.

thanks
uli

By: John

John — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 11:27:55 +0000

Many thanks for your help – saved me ages with this tip!
Cheers,
John

By: bigpresh

bigpresh — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:19:00 +0000

@Jason:

Glad it was useful to you! Thanks for the comment, and for the hint on setting mailbox_size_limit to zero too!

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:46:19 +0000

Thanks for the page — finding it saved me considerable troubleshooting time on my similar mail setup.

BTW, you can also set mailbox_size_limit to 0, meaning no limit.

Jason.

By: Thomas Thurman

Thomas Thurman — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:59:03 +0000

Thank you so much!

By: MailHater

MailHater — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:42:51 +0000

It might be worth noting that the -d flag for postconf displays the *default* value always. After changing the setting, if you want to see the currently used setting, you need to using the -n flag instead:

postconf -n mailbox_size_limit

By: JDW

JDW — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 06:36:22 +0000

I, too, have been trying to figure this out for ages. Thanks!

By: Azlinon

Azlinon — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:23:07 +0000

Made my day as well. Thank you for posting this!

By: bigpresh

bigpresh — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:02:38 +0000

@TheCase:

Glad it was of use to you, and thanks for taking the time to leave a comment :)

By: TheCase

TheCase — Sun, 15 Jul 2007 18:08:53 +0000

Wow – I’ve been looking to fix this problem (and find the source) forever… thanks for the solution.

Hardest part was finding something in some logs somewhere so I could perform a helpful Google search. Finally stumbled on the procmail logs…