Bug report: crash of notmuch insert

Adam C. Emerson azure at fox.blue
Tue Dec 12 20:28:51 PST 2017


On 12/12/2017, Tomi Ollila wrote:
[snip]
> > Have you ruled out an actual file size problem? This could be related to
> > the environment notmuch insert is running in; I have a vague memory of a
> > related issue encountered by a Postfix user.
>
> Adam,
>
> Does `ulimit -f` help ? what does it print out ?
>
> (I personally have never seen anything else than 'unlimited' there)

Thank you! This fixed it. I wasn't setting a limit myself, but it
turns out that Postfix enforces its mailbox size by running deliver
with an rlimit on the maximum file size (not what I would have
expected). I just set mailbox_size_limit to 0 and I haven't had it
happen since.


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