On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 12:16:24PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> This had me *really* confused for a while, my sentmail disappeared.
>
> I finally realised that the file was >2Gb and reducing this has fixed
> the problem.
>
Actually it's not >2Gb, it's some figure above 200Mb:-
The file which was invisible:-
-rw-rw-r-- 1 chris chris 1183926 2012-01-02 16:33 mairix
-rw-r--r-- 1 chris chris 221289008 2012-01-04 11:49 sentmail
Reducing it as follows made it visible:-
-rw-rw-r-- 1 chris chris 1183926 2012-01-02 16:33 mairix
-rw-r--r-- 1 chris chris 220663517 2012-01-04 12:16 sentmail
As I said it had me really confused for a while as when I navigated (in
mutt) to the directory where those two files were it showed me nothing
(the mairix file didn't appear either). I checked permissions and all
sorts before I guessed it was the size, lucky I didn't realise it was
actually 200Mb rather than 2Gb as I might not have realised it was
significant.
I just manually edited the file using vi[le] to delete the first few
tens of messages. I've cleared some more out since.
--
Chris Green
