LTMPD rejecting large messages, maxmessagesize is _not_ set

[David Carter]

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Chris St. Pierre wrote:

> LMTPD is rejecting large messages; I've been unable to figure out the 
> exact threshold, but I am seeing messages like this in my Postfix logs:
>
> Jun 28 20:23:12 vostok postfix/qmgr[9323]: 22F5373D6F6: 
> from=<sender at example.com>, size=16243464, nrcpt=1 (queue active) Jun 28 
> 20:23:22 vostok postfix/lmtp[13405]: warning: non-LMTP response from 
> imap.nebrwesleyan.edu[10.1.1.31]: sendmail: fatal: 
> sender at example.com(76): Message file too big

I don't think that Cyrus generated that error messages. Try "strings" on 
the lmtpd binary. Errors from Cyrus should be all variants on:

   ec IMAP_MESSAGE_TOO_LARGE,
    "Message size exceeds fixed limit"

Is sendmail/postfix using a staging partition which has run out space?

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