Anne Wilson a écrit :
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On 25/06/12 11:55, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:36:56 +0100 Anne Wilson<[email protected]>
wrote:
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Plain M2 :-) Every time I started Thunderbird I got a message
that it couldn't locate the local mail spool (can't remember the
exact words). Assuming it meant /var/spool/mail/anne, I touched
that, owned anne:mail (I tried root, too), but now the message is
"Unable to truncate spool file /var/spool/mail/anne".
I don't have the problem on the Cauldron netbook, so I checked
there, and there is no /var/spool/mail/anne - so I guess
something has changed wrt local mail. Are we now talking about
~/.local/share/local-mail/ ? What do I need to do now?
Anne - --
/var/spool/mail/anne is the system mailbox for user anne.
Thunderbird will be putting your mail somewhere else. I suspect
that it will be a dot-directory under /home/anne, perhaps a
subdirectory of your .mozilla directory.
I think that TB uses the mbox file format. That means that your
inbox will be one big file. Perhaps TB is trying to delete the
old mails, hence "truncate."
That makes sense, yes. I had assumed that it was talking about system
messages, which I would expect to be in /var/spool/mail/anne.
I am using IMAP - not Disconnected IMAP - IOW, I don't store mail
locally (though I did previously), so that shouldn't be the problem.
All the same, I'll give it some thought.
Thanks
Anne
- --
If you are using IMAP, by default it will download a message each time
you view it, instead of downloading once and leaving it on your
computer. (The plus is easier access from different computers.)
I don't know how mozilla (thunderbird or seamonkey) deals with IMAP, but
if a message is larger than the message size download limit, that could
be the problem.
With seamonkey the message size limit is set under
account_preferences/disk_space. (free translation from french)
I imagine that thunderbird uses a similar location
With POP3 (which I use), it downloads the beginning of an oversized
message and displays "truncated. If you click on the link displayed, it
will then downloads the entire message, then deletes the partial message
that was first downloaded.
Maybe checking ~/.mozilla/thunderbird/xxxxxxxx.*/Mail/{accountname}/inbox
or similar will give you some clues.
Regards
--
André
