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Old 09-22-2007, 06:17 PM   #1
timothyb89
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Postfix: Insufficient system storage


It seems that Postfix suddenly stopped working after a reboot and a router reset a while back, and seemingly without a cause.
Whenever I try sending myself an email (testing the server), I get something like this in my local inbox:
Quote:
Out: 220 timothyb89.homelinux.org ESMTP Postfix
In: EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com
Out: 250-timothyb89.homelinux.org
Out: 250-PIPELINING
Out: 250-SIZE 2147483647
Out: 250-VRFY
Out: 250-ETRN
Out: 250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN
Out: 250-ENHANCEDSTATUSCODES
Out: 250-8BITMIME
Out: 250 DSN
In: MAIL FROM:<timothyb89@gmail.com>
Out: 452 4.3.1 Insufficient system storage
In: QUIT
Out: 221 2.0.0 By
And this in my remote account I sent the message from (gmail):
Quote:
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification

Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:

new-tim@timothyb89.homelinux.org

Technical details of permanent failure:
TEMP_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 12): 452 4.3.1 Insufficient system storage
This led me to believe that I had managed to let beagle index away my disk space, but df spoke differently:
Quote:
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda9 61G 53G 6.1G 90% /
udev 506M 100K 506M 1% /dev
/dev/sda5 23G 9.1G 13G 43% /kubuntu
/dev/sda2 29G 27G 1.2G 97% /windows/C
/dev/sda6 16G 13G 2.8G 83% /windows/D
/dev/sda7 3.6G 2.0G 1.7G 56% /windows/E
tmpfs 506M 332K 505M 1% /dev/shm
So maybe I don't have much space left, but surely 6.1 GiB is enough to send a message this small?

Anyone have a decent fix, or at least a reason for this happening so I can reinstall Postfix without too much regret?

Thanks!

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Running openSuSE 10.2
 
Old 09-23-2007, 12:09 AM   #2
billymayday
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Do you have either message_size_limit or queue_minfree set?

You probably don't need queue_minfree set, and you will get the error you indicated if you don't have at least 1.5X the value of message_size_limit free (it could have a large value set by mistake)

Post the output of

postconf -n
 
  


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