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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.cais.net!in1.nntp.cais.net!gabby.ShireNet.com!bilbo.ShireNet.com!larry From: larry@bilbo.ShireNet.com (Larry Himes) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Sendmail Deferring Date: 19 Nov 1996 13:21:15 GMT Organization: ShireNet Communications Systems, Inc. Lines: 30 Message-ID: <56sc8b$10q@frodo.ShireNet.com> References: <328f7b56.165357727@news.oneworld.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: bilbo.shirenet.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] If you check the maillog I think you will probably see what's going on. The most likely thing is that you've got /tmp assigned to an mfs that isn't big enough to hold the mail. For some reason, local mail goes to /tmp before it gets delivered (don't know why). We quit using mfs for /tmp quite awhile back for just this reason. Hope this helps. Larry Himes. Greg Keene (gkeene@watertown.com) wrote: : This may not be BSDI specific, but hadn't seen it elsewhere so I thought I : would try here first. : Why is it that sendmail is deferring incoming mail that's larger than 8MB : (at least I definitely notice it on a 10MB message)? The mail arrives : completely and is just held in /var/spool/mqueue and isn't transferred to : the user's mail directory. There are no quotas setup, so it's not a quota : issue. Admittedly, that's a large mail message, but it would be nice to be : able to accommodate it. : Please CC: me on posts. : Thanks in advance. : Greg Keene