[CentOS] Mail Question

Mon Jun 27 19:01:49 UTC 2011
Bo Lynch <blynch at ameliaschools.com>

On Mon, June 27, 2011 2:32 pm, Marian Marinov wrote:
> On Monday 27 June 2011 21:25:42 Bo Lynch wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> Im having a issue that I just cant seem to figure out. We currently are
>> running an email server Centos 5.6 Postfix/Dovecot with a squirrelmail
>> frontend. I was setting up a testbed to do a migration to SoGo using
>> LDAP/MYSQL/POSTFIX/Dovecot. I have everything up and functional but one
>> thing is giving me an issue. The testbed box will not handle a users
>> mailbox over 2gb. We are using mbox on the existing server with no
>> issues
>> at all. I have multiple users with inboxes over 2gb and and archive mbox
>> file with over 50gb. I have check postfix and made sure that the
>> mailbox_size_limit = 0
>> Both are running i686 as returned by the arch command and both are
>> Centos
>> version 5.6.
>> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Did you checked the ulimits? Try adding:
>   ulimit -f unlimited
> to the postfix/dovecot init scripts.
> Also if you are chrooting postfix or dovecot, check the limits in
> /etc/security/limits.conf.
>
> Marian

Added the ulimts -f unlimited to both init scripts. Same issue. Also
checked the limits.conf file. Everything in it is rem out. Still having
the same issues. My log file states......
cannot update mailbox
/var/mail/farmer for user farmer. cannot open file: File too large