Re: problems with large imap folder/file

2003-10-06 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
On 3 Oct 2003 at 10:07, Mark Crispin wrote: Yes, the mailutil program (included as part of the IMAP toolkit) has a mechanisms to copy a mailbox with a different format in the destination copy. Hmm, using the currently installed mailutil fails. I've renamed the Sent Items to sentold and run

Re: problems with large imap folder/file

2003-10-06 Thread Mark Crispin
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Harondel J. Sibble wrote: # mailutil copy -verbose sentold #driver.mbx/sentnew usage: mailutil copy [-debug] [-verbose] source destination In some shells, # is a comment character, so you have to quote any string which uses it: mailutil copy -verbose sentold

Re: problems with large imap folder/file

2003-10-06 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
On 6 Oct 2003 at 9:20, Mark Crispin wrote: In some shells, # is a comment character, so you have to quote any string which uses it: mailutil copy -verbose sentold #driver.mbx/sentnew Hmmm... that also fails # mailutil copy -verbose sentold #driver.mbx/sentnew Can't open mailbox sentold: no

Re: problems with large imap folder/file

2003-10-06 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
On 6 Oct 2003 at 11:15, Harondel J. Sibble wrote: Next I'll try using the mbx converted version of the Sent Items folder and see what happens. Will report under another email. I select messages, move them to local folder, select edit/purge ... Oct 6 11:35:52 server1 imapd[2415]: imap

Re: problems with large imap folder/file

2003-10-06 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
On 6 Oct 2003 at 12:44, Mark Crispin wrote: This is with an mbx-format Sent Items mailbox, and is *after* you purged it? So it is empty? Yes, converted from mbox to mbx, no it's not empty, there are approx 930 messages in the file, attempting to purge any of them results in the memory

Re: problems with large imap folder/file

2003-10-06 Thread Mark Crispin
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Harondel J. Sibble wrote: Yes, converted from mbox to mbx, no it's not empty, there are approx 930 messages in the file, attempting to purge any of them results in the memory errors. There are no calls to fs_resize() in the mbx driver expunge. Something else is going on.

Re: problems with large imap folder/file

2003-10-06 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
On 6 Oct 2003 at 13:26, Mark Crispin wrote: There are no calls to fs_resize() in the mbx driver expunge. Something else is going on. I would like to know what that is. Heh, me too. Something else is going on indeed, just called the client back and it's working fine now, while 1 hour ago it

Re: problems with large imap folder/file

2003-10-03 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
On 2 Oct 2003 at 14:22, Mark Crispin wrote: Your system should have quite enough memory to handle the mail file that you describe. Are you certain that you are using mbx format (files that have *mbx* as the first line)? in the user's home dir # head INBOX *mbx* 3e3df7c83343 # head

Re: problems with large imap folder/file

2003-10-02 Thread Mark Crispin
Your system should have quite enough memory to handle the mail file that you describe. Are you certain that you are using mbx format (files that have *mbx* as the first line)? Have you tried upgrading to the latest version of UW imapd? ftp://ftp.cac.washington.edu/mail/imap.tar.Z --