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List:       qmail
Subject:    Re: what does "deferral: qmail-local_crashed./" mean?
From:       Shaya Potter <spotter () cs ! columbia ! edu>
Date:       2007-04-19 17:38:02
Message-ID: 4627A8FA.9020803 () cs ! columbia ! edu
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Harald Hanche-Olsen wrote:
> + Shaya Potter <spotter@cs.columbia.edu>:
> 
> | Again, my analysis was wrong :)
> | 
> | think it was file size
> | 
> | $ ls -lh Mailbox-default-sas
> | -rw------- 1 shmuelp users 2.0G 2006-12-16 00:45 /home/shmuelp/Mailbox-default-sas
> 
> A 2 gigabyte mbox?  The mind boggles.

yea, basically it was a spam trap that the person has seemingly forgot 
about.

> | my gut feeling is that this is perhaps because qmail is not using
> | large file support?
> 
> Yeah, you're probably right.  qmail-local checks the file position
> before it starts writing, so that it can truncate the file back to
> where it was if it needs to interrupt what it's doing.  And that code
> is strictly 32-bit, IIRC.

bug in qmail or "user is the bug for letting it grow that big" :)

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