On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 13:09 +0000, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 07:43 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 07:25 +0000, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> > > I subscribe to the Open Office Mailing list, which is a high-volume
> > > list. (4000 posts a month). Sometimes I get the following error:
> > > 
> > > "Error while Storing folder 'Personal Folders/ITC/Software/Open Office'.
> > > 
> > > "Summary and folder mismatch, even after a sync
> > > 
> > > when exiting the folder. Is this because the folder gets over a certain
> > > size limit, or is this a bug? I find I can cure it by creating another
> > > folder and moving all the messages to it and then deleting the original
> > > folder.
> > > 
> > > Any thoughts?
> > 
> > Is the folder local or on an IMAP server? If local, is it stored as an
> > mbox or as a Maildir? If it's local and an mbox then you could be
> > hitting a limit on file sizes (2GB on some versions of Limux). Do you
> > compact the folder after deleting messages? If not, the mbox doesn't get
> > any smaller even though it appears to have few messages in it. That's
> > why copying the folder and deleting the original works, so why not use
> > File->Compact Folder, which does exactly the same thing?
> > 
> 
> It's a local folder and is currently standing at 5 MB only!

I assume you mean the size reported by "ls -l". In that case I have no
suggestions, since if you were simply running out of disk space you
wouldn't be able to copy the folder to fix the problem.

poc

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