On Sat, 11 Jul 2009, Kenneth Stephen wrote:

> Jul 11 05:30:51 rust mail:warn|warning postfix/smtpd[585982]: warning:
> not enough free space in mail queue: 4345856 bytes < 1.5*message size
> limit
> Jul 11 05:30:52 rust mail:warn|warning postfix/smtpd[438490]: warning:
> not enough free space in mail queue: 0 bytes < 1.5*message size limit
> 
>    I'm interpreting the "warning: not enough free space in mail queue:
> x bytes" message as postfix telling me that there are x bytes free on
> the filesystem. 

Yes.

>    However, between 05:30:51 and 05:30:52, the remaining 4MB of space
> disappears. There is only one email handled(according to the
> syslog) in that interval, and since that bounce message arrived in the
> postmas...@rust.mydomain.somewhere.com inbox, and it wasn't 4MB large
> (approx 2KB), I'm left scratching my head as to what happened within
> that second. Does anyone have any thoughts on what might have
> happened? Any pointers on what to look for will be appreciated.

Could something other than Postfix have written to the file system which
houses the mail queue?

-- 
Sahil Tandon <sa...@tandon.net>

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