[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#708844: buildd-mail: cannot move packages > 50Mb correctly to upload directory

Michael Cree mcree at orcon.net.nz
Sun May 19 06:15:48 UTC 2013


On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 02:27:15AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> Are you sure you didn't set up some limits for file sizes somehow?
> Try "ulimit -f".

I asked the site administrator whether the mail setup could be imposing
a file size limit and he thus said:

> Yeah, I think it has to do with the Postfix message-size limit. Looking
> at the Postfix source, I see a routine “set_file_limit” (defined in
> src/util/file_limit.c), which is called in various places to set the
> process maximum file size to either the mailbox size or the individual
> message size.

So this appears to be a problem in our mail configuration.  I'll sort
it out with our site administrator.

My apologies for the hassle.

Cheers
Michael.



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