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Date:      Tue, 4 Feb 2003 23:32:33 +0100
From:      Michael Nottebrock <michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>
To:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   maildrop/tmpfile breakage on 5.0-RELEASE (?)
Message-ID:  <200302042332.37076.michaelnottebrock@gmx.net>

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I noticed a growing queue of undelivered messages today and after some digg=
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I found out that maildrop, which I use as a local delivery agent for sendma=
il=20
in order to deliver to Maildirs, would fail on some messages bigger than it=
s=20
message-buffer with "Unable to create temporary file.".

I traced that error message back in the sourcecode - it's emitted if tempfi=
le=20
generation via tmpfile(3) fails. Since permissions on /tmp were nominal and=
 I=20
couldn't think of anything else, I recompiled the port with an additional=20
=2D-enable-tempdir=3D.tmp in order to disable usage of tmpfile and that sol=
ved=20
the problem.

My question is: Does anybody with a similar configuration see any similar=20
behaviour, i.e. growing queues of undelivered mail and maildrop-errors in=20
/var/log/maillog? It may perfectly well be just my box being screwed up in =
a=20
weird way, but the thought of more mail servers out there silently loosing=
=20
mail is somewhat scary...

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Regards,
	Michael Nottebrock
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