Turns out the one message had some control characters in it. The web page
that the mail was based on had some non-standard characters and so what I
think is 8-bit quoting was taking place. One of the characters was the
copyright symbol. When I removed the offending characters the add went
fine.
Thanks for the responses.
Stanley Weilnau
On Sun, 13 Dec 1998, Earl Hood wrote:
> On December 11, 1998 at 14:15, Stanley Weilnau wrote:
>
> > I tried the -savemem option but that did not help. I did narrow it down
> > to one message from the archive and after removing it from the archive I
> > was able to add the other messages to the Mhonarc pages.
> >
> > I am now trying to isolate what was in the message that is causing the
> > add process to not function correctly.
>
> First, check its size. It may contain some overly large attachment.
>
> Second, check if you have process size limits in effect on your system.
> Many Unix-based systems can be configured to limit process sizes.
> I have had success with a 15Mb message (and this was years ago). And
> I recently test against a 2.3Mb message.
>
> Third, check any custom resources you have defined. If you forgot
> to properly close a resource element in your resource file, MHonArc
> can be using a large chunk a data in some pattern match operations.
> Some unclosed resource elements are known to stress perl out.
>
> --ewh
>
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