Anne Wilson a écrit :
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On 26/06/12 07:52, andre999 wrote:
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]>
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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.
Good suggestion, but the message popup was seen as Thunderbird
started, not during downloading. Although I think it is "cured" I'd
really like to know what was happening. Still....
Doesn't Thunderbird automatically check messages when you start it ?
(That is the default, isn't it ?)
So if it happened to encounter an oversized message ?
Alternately, the suggestions by others regarding a locally installed
email agent...
Anne
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André
