I'm getting repeated email (KMail) error messages about one apparently over-large post: -------------------------- Received: from helen.gayleard.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by helen.gayleard.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4500294A0 for tim@helen.gayleard.com; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 14:00:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: (from tim@localhost) by helen.gayleard.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id t0OE02Ie006372; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 14:00:02 GMT Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 14:00:02 +0000 X-Authentication-Warning: helen.gayleard.com: tim set sender to root using - f From: Cron Daemon root@helen.gayleard.com To: tim@helen.gayleard.com Subject: Cron tim@helen /usr/bin/fetchmail -s mail.eircom.net
fetchmail: SMTP error: 552 5.3.4 Message size exceeds fixed limit fetchmail: mail from MAILER-DAEMON@helen.gayleard.com bounced to biblioteca@comune.anghiari.ar.it -------------------------- I've appended mailbox_size_limit = 20000000 to /etc/posfix/main.cf (and re-started postfix) but this does not seem to have done the trick.
I get this email by fetchmail, and it goes to dovecot from which I retrieve it on my laptop. So I'm not entirely clear where the problem occurs.
I would delete the email if I could find it, but it does not appear to be in my Maildir, or in /var/spool/ .
Is there some way I can stop these messages, please?
Am 24.01.2015 um 16:10 schrieb Timothy Murphy:
I'm getting repeated email (KMail) error messages about one apparently over-large post:
Received: from helen.gayleard.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by helen.gayleard.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4500294A0 for tim@helen.gayleard.com; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 14:00:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: (from tim@localhost) by helen.gayleard.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id t0OE02Ie006372; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 14:00:02 GMT Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 14:00:02 +0000 X-Authentication-Warning: helen.gayleard.com: tim set sender to root using - f
That's Sendmail, NOT Postfix!
From: Cron Daemon root@helen.gayleard.com To: tim@helen.gayleard.com Subject: Cron tim@helen /usr/bin/fetchmail -s mail.eircom.net
fetchmail: SMTP error: 552 5.3.4 Message size exceeds fixed limit fetchmail: mail from MAILER-DAEMON@helen.gayleard.com bounced to biblioteca@comune.anghiari.ar.it
I've appended mailbox_size_limit = 20000000 to /etc/posfix/main.cf (and re-started postfix) but this does not seem to have done the trick.
main.cf doesn't matter because Sendmail is the MTA acting here.
I get this email by fetchmail, and it goes to dovecot from which I retrieve it on my laptop. So I'm not entirely clear where the problem occurs.
I would delete the email if I could find it, but it does not appear to be in my Maildir, or in /var/spool/ .
Is there some way I can stop these messages, please?
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
Alexander Dalloz wrote:
Am 24.01.2015 um 16:10 schrieb Timothy Murphy:
I'm getting repeated email (KMail) error messages about one apparently over-large post:
Received: from helen.gayleard.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by helen.gayleard.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4500294A0 for tim@helen.gayleard.com; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 14:00:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: (from tim@localhost) by helen.gayleard.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id t0OE02Ie006372; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 14:00:02 GMT Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 14:00:02 +0000 X-Authentication-Warning: helen.gayleard.com: tim set sender to root using - f
That's Sendmail, NOT Postfix!
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
On 01/24/2015 09:10 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
I'm getting repeated email (KMail) error messages about one apparently over-large post:
Received: from helen.gayleard.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by helen.gayleard.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4500294A0 for <tim at helen.gayleard.com>; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 14:00:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: (from tim@localhost) by helen.gayleard.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id t0OE02Ie006372; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 14:00:02 GMT Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 14:00:02 +0000 X-Authentication-Warning: helen.gayleard.com: tim set sender to root using - f From: Cron Daemon <root at helen.gayleard.com> To: tim at helen.gayleard.com Subject: Cron tim@helen /usr/bin/fetchmail -s mail.eircom.net
fetchmail: SMTP error: 552 5.3.4 Message size exceeds fixed limit fetchmail: mail from MAILER-DAEMON at helen.gayleard.com bounced to biblioteca at comune.anghiari.ar.it
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.
Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 01/24/2015 07:10 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
mailbox_size_limit = 20000000
I think you meant message_size_limit.
Actually, I appended both to /etc/postfix/mail.cf -------------------------- mailbox_size_limit = 20000000 message_size_limit = 19000000 -------------------------
On Sat, January 24, 2015 6:39 pm, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Gordon Messmer wrote:
On 01/24/2015 07:10 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
mailbox_size_limit = 20000000
I think you meant message_size_limit.
Actually, I appended both to /etc/postfix/mail.cf
mailbox_size_limit = 20000000 message_size_limit = 19000000
You can do
mailbox_size_limit = 0
which will mean "unlimited"
Just mentioning.
Valeri
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
On 01/24/2015 04:39 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Actually, I appended both to /etc/postfix/mail.cf
mailbox_size_limit = 20000000 message_size_limit = 19000000
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.
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