[PLUG] Procmail quits sorting after a while... Solved

Russ Johnson russj at dimstar.net
Tue Nov 16 22:55:44 UTC 2004


Russ Johnson wrote:

> OK, here's a procmail problem that comes up with my system every 
> month. Monthly, I have a cron job that archives my sorted mail 
> folders. After that happens, everything works swimmingly... until 
> sometime in the middle of the month. Then procmail doesn't sort 
> certain emails that it sorted previously. It only stops sorting some 
> of the mail. It continues to sort most of my mail properly. Is there a 
> file size it can't write to?

OK, I found it... after searching google for awhile.

mailbox_size_limit = 51200000

That's the default for postfix, and it must transfer this limit to 
procmail, since procmail is delivering.

I'm testing right now, but according to the debian mailing list, this is 
the issue.

Russ



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