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 at 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 at 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 -------------------------- 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? -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin
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 at helen.gayleard.com>; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 14:00:05 +0000 (GMT) > Received: (from tim at 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 - > fThat's Sendmail, NOT Postfix!> From: Cron Daemon <root at helen.gayleard.com> > To: tim at helen.gayleard.com > Subject: Cron <tim at 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 > -------------------------- > 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
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 at 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 at 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. -- Bob Nichols "NOSPAM" is really part of my email address. Do NOT delete it.
On 01/24/2015 07:10 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:> mailbox_size_limit = 20000000I think you meant message_size_limit.
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 at helen.gayleard.com>; Sat, 24 Jan 2015 >> 14:00:05 +0000 (GMT) Received: (from tim at 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 at helen ~]$ sudo service sendmail status sendmail is stopped sm-client is stopped -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin
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 ------------------------- -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin