Your message dated Thu, 22 Oct 2020 19:46:09 +0000 with message-id <[email protected]> and subject line Bug#972653: Removed package(s) from unstable has caused the Debian Bug report #845277, regarding undocumented need for large tmp directory when archiving large mailboxes to be marked as done.
This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith. (NB: If you are a system administrator and have no idea what this message is talking about, this may indicate a serious mail system misconfiguration somewhere. Please contact [email protected] immediately.) -- 845277: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=845277 Debian Bug Tracking System Contact [email protected] with problems
--- Begin Message ---Package: archivemail Version: 0.9.0-1.1 Severity: normal archivemail fails on large mailboxes: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/archivemail", line 1951, in <module> main() File "/usr/bin/archivemail", line 700, in main archive(mailbox_path) File "/usr/bin/archivemail", line 1133, in archive _archive_dir(mailbox_name, "mh") File "/usr/bin/archivemail", line 1266, in _archive_dir archive.write(msg) File "/usr/bin/archivemail", line 566, in write self.mbox_file.write(body) File "/usr/lib/python2.7/gzip.py", line 243, in write self.fileobj.write( self.compress.compress(data) ) IOError: [Errno 28] No space left on device This is despite the output directory ("-o some_directory") having plenty of space. The problem is that archivemail constructs a temporary mailbox containing all the messages to archive in the default temporary directory, and will therefore fail if that directory is not large enough. I do not believe this is documented in the program's documentation, and the program itself should exit more gracefully and provide the user with a clearer explanation of the problem. In any event, the solution is to use environment variables to point archivemail toward a tmp directory with enough space, by prefacing the call to archivemail with something like: export TMPDIR=/some_dir -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.4.30-lizzie (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages archivemail depends on: ii python 2.7.9-1 archivemail recommends no packages. archivemail suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---Version: 0.9.0-1.1+rm Dear submitter, as the package archivemail has just been removed from the Debian archive unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry that we couldn't deal with your issue properly. For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/972653 The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/. Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the earliest. This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive administrators by mailing [email protected]. Debian distribution maintenance software pp. Joerg Jaspert (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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