On Thu, 7 Jan 2010, Juan Bernhard wrote:
> Hello Renaud, my question was for the 27 part from "defer(27)". Anyway,
> this error is beyond the smtp codes, it happens when the server
> (appendfile transport I guess ?) tries to write the message on the mbox
> file. I wrote a copy of the debug message on the first mail.
>
> The online manual describes well the defer, but it doesnt not describes
> the meaning of each code.
That's probably because it is just reporting what the operating system
returned when it tried that operation. Look in /usr/include/sys/errno.h,
wherein my Solaris 9:
#define EFBIG 27 /* File too large */
Jethro.
>
> Thanks,
> Juan.
>
>
> El 07/01/2010 15:39, Renaud Allard escribi?:
> > Hello Juan,
> >
> > Juan Bernhard wrote:
> >> Hi John, thanks for your answer, but Solaris 10 (this problem was on
> >> Solaris 9) can handle larger files than 2gb, the restriction isn't on
> >> the ufs. The first thing I tried was '$cat 500mb-file >> 2gb-file'
> >> (with the same permission that the user) and worked fine.
> >>
> >> I really need to know what "defer (27)" means, so I can start looking
> >> to that. I couldn't find this on the user manual.
> >>
> >
> > Defer means the sending MTA receives a 4xx error message, which is a
> > temporary error. So the sending MTA should send that mail again in the
> > future.
> > This is well described in the manual, you should probably download the
> > PDF version of the manual, which is easily searchable. There is also
> > an online version where you can make searches, but I don't remember
> > how to access it right now.
>
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