On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Wietse Venema <wie...@porcupine.org> wrote:
> Squeeshh Me:
>> Wietse: ok, here it is:
>>  egrep '(warning|error|fatal|panic):' /var/log/maillog | more
>>
>> Aug 22 21:50:17 node2 postfix/virtual[71240]: panic: file size limit
>> 1000000 < message size 1498997.
>
> Your Postfix version was modified with an unofficial patch
> that implements quota in the virtual delivery agent.
>
> This unofficial patch allows you to configure a quota limit that
> is smaller than the message size limit.
>
> Unfortunately, the unofficial patch mis-implements quota smaller
> than the message size; instead of returning the message as
> undeliverable, it lets Postfix fail delivery repeatedly.
>
> The panic message was added to as part of a safety mechanism that
> protects against broken unofficial patches.
>
>        Wietse
>

Thanks Wietse for your advice and time, appreciate both. The advice
sheds a great deal of light. Guess I'll seek advise from the VDA
folks. Cheers.

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