Re: [lopsa-tech] mail server help

2015-01-12 Thread John Stoffel
> "Matt" == Matt Lawrence writes: Matt> On Mon, 12 Jan 2015, Smith, David wrote: >> According to this RHEL bug: >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428996 >> Postfix 2.4 (and below, presumably, including 2.3 which was packaged with >> CentOS 5) used off_t for file offsets, which

Re: [lopsa-tech] mail server help

2015-01-12 Thread David Lang
On Mon, 12 Jan 2015, Matt Lawrence wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 2015, Brandon Allbery wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Matt Lawrence wrote: Maybe you need to check if your alpine has the 2GB limit and chokes? If it's 32 bit then I could see internal indexes failing on >2GB files. Postfix b

Re: [lopsa-tech] mail server help

2015-01-12 Thread Matt Lawrence
On Mon, 12 Jan 2015, Smith, David wrote: According to this RHEL bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428996 Postfix 2.4 (and below, presumably, including 2.3 which was packaged with CentOS 5) used off_t for file offsets, which appears to be a 32-bit value on CentOS 5 32-bit. So tha

Re: [lopsa-tech] mail server help

2015-01-12 Thread Smith, David
According to this RHEL bug: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428996 Postfix 2.4 (and below, presumably, including 2.3 which was packaged with CentOS 5) used off_t for file offsets, which appears to be a 32-bit value on CentOS 5 32-bit. So that probably is the root cause. If you have t

Re: [lopsa-tech] mail server help

2015-01-12 Thread Matt Lawrence
On Mon, 12 Jan 2015, Brandon Allbery wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Matt Lawrence wrote: Maybe you need to check if your alpine has the 2GB limit and chokes? If it's 32 bit then I could see internal indexes failing on >2GB files. Postfix bounced messages that would cause the inbox to

Re: [lopsa-tech] mail server help

2015-01-12 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Matt Lawrence wrote: > On Mon, 12 Jan 2015, Smith, David wrote: > > What file system are you using? The 2GB limit doesn't sound like anything >> related to Postfix (unless you set Postfix's mailbox_size_limit directive >> years ago then forgot about it). >> > > e

Re: [lopsa-tech] mail server help

2015-01-12 Thread Matt Lawrence
On Mon, 12 Jan 2015, Smith, David wrote: What file system are you using? The 2GB limit doesn't sound like anything related to Postfix (unless you set Postfix's mailbox_size_limit directive years ago then forgot about it). ext3. I have other files larger than 2GB on the server, so I doubt it

Re: [lopsa-tech] mail server help

2015-01-12 Thread Smith, David
What file system are you using? The 2GB limit doesn't sound like anything related to Postfix (unless you set Postfix's mailbox_size_limit directive years ago then forgot about it). (There's also another discussion about whether it's worth the time and trouble to run your own mail server these d

Re: [lopsa-tech] mail server help

2015-01-12 Thread Tru Huynh
On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 09:12:32PM -0600, Matt Lawrence wrote: ... > I've been running Postfix as a mail server for many years, it's > currently running on a CentOS 5 system. I've also been using pine > (or alpine) to read my email for decades. Well, it appears that > Postfix may have a maximum l

Re: [lopsa-tech] mail server help

2015-01-12 Thread Simon Lyall
On Sun, 11 Jan 2015, Matt Lawrence wrote: Everything lives on the server, I ssh and run (al)pine locally to access my mail spool locally, no POP3 or IMAP in use at all. Current mail storage is mbox. Yeah, really, really old fashioned, the original server was a 386 with 16M or RAM running Debi