Re: Error updating primary drop. Mail left in temporary maildrop (28)

At 1:39 PM +0100 12/14/06, Zazell Kroeske wrote:

>  Hi All,
>
>  I'm new to this list, but I have quite an urgent matter which I need to
>  solve.
>
>  If one of the users on my mail server tries to fetch its mail, I see the
>  follow error show up in the maillog:
>
>  Dec 14 13:08:34 cobalt4i in.qpopper[7293]: rzoeteman at xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
>  (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx): -ERR Error updating primary drop. Mail left in
>  temporary maildrop (28)
>
>  The server is an old cobalt RAQ server (4i) running qpopper 3.0.
>  This user is unable to fetch all of the emails that are waiting for him.
>
>  Can anyone tell what this error means, since even Google hasn't got any
>  useful results.
>
>  Kind regards,
>
>  Zazell


The number in parentheses is the system error code that qpopper 
received trying to update the user's maildrop.  Normally a text 
string explaining the error is also included, using strerror().  The 
fact that the string is empty in your case is probably explained by 
it being a very old system.  The error codes are also contained in 
/usr/include/errno.h.

At any rate, error 28 is "No space left on device".  How big is the 
user's spool file, and how much free space is there?
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