Re: problems with large imap folder/file

2003-10-06 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
On 3 Oct 2003 at 10:07, Mark Crispin wrote: > Yes, the mailutil program (included as part of the IMAP toolkit) has a > mechanisms to copy a mailbox with a different format in the destination > copy. Hmm, using the currently installed mailutil fails. I've renamed the "Sent Items" to sentold and

Re: problems with large imap folder/file

2003-10-06 Thread Mark Crispin
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Harondel J. Sibble wrote: > # mailutil copy -verbose sentold #driver.mbx/sentnew > usage: mailutil copy [-debug] [-verbose] source destination In some shells, "#" is a comment character, so you have to quote any string which uses it: mailutil copy -verbose sentold "#driver.mbx

Re: problems with large imap folder/file

2003-10-06 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
On 6 Oct 2003 at 9:20, Mark Crispin wrote: > In some shells, "#" is a comment character, so you have to quote any > string which uses it: > mailutil copy -verbose sentold "#driver.mbx/sentnew" Hmmm... that also fails # mailutil copy -verbose sentold "#driver.mbx/sentnew" Can't open mailbox sen

Re: problems with large imap folder/file

2003-10-06 Thread Mark Crispin
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Harondel J. Sibble wrote: > # mailutil copy -verbose sentold "#driver.mbx/sentnew" > Can't open mailbox sentold: no such mailbox > > # ls -la sentold > -rw--- 1 username groupname108783116 Oct 6 09:39 sentold mailutil does not operate on the connected directory; it o

Re: problems with large imap folder/file

2003-10-06 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
On 6 Oct 2003 at 10:01, Mark Crispin wrote: > mailutil does not operate on the connected directory; it operates on the > mail home directory (which, unless you've set it elsewhere, would be the > user's UNIX home directory). Try specifying a fully-qualified path, or at > If you are running this

Re: problems with large imap folder/file

2003-10-06 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
On 6 Oct 2003 at 11:15, Harondel J. Sibble wrote: > Next I'll try using the mbx converted version of the Sent Items folder and see > what happens. Will report under another email. I select messages, move them to local folder, select edit/purge ... Oct 6 11:35:52 server1 imapd[2415]: imap serv

Re: problems with large imap folder/file

2003-10-06 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
On 6 Oct 2003 at 11:50, Harondel J. Sibble wrote: > And lo and behold, it appears to purge the messages fine. The user in > question is currently in a meeting, once she gets out, I'll have her try the > same thing and report back, meanwhile, I can finally have some breakfast ;-) Nope, must ha

Re: problems with large imap folder/file

2003-10-06 Thread Mark Crispin
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Harondel J. Sibble wrote: > Nope, must have been a lucky break, it still crashes with memory errors when > accessing the Sent Items folder from the users' end. This is with an mbx-format "Sent Items" mailbox, and is *after* you purged it? So it is empty? Can you provide me wi

Re: problems with large imap folder/file

2003-10-06 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
On 6 Oct 2003 at 12:44, Mark Crispin wrote: > This is with an mbx-format "Sent Items" mailbox, and is *after* you purged it? > So it is empty? Yes, converted from mbox to mbx, no it's not empty, there are approx 930 messages in the file, attempting to purge any of them results in the memory

Re: problems with large imap folder/file

2003-10-06 Thread Mark Crispin
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Harondel J. Sibble wrote: > Yes, converted from mbox to mbx, no it's not empty, there are approx 930 > messages in the file, attempting to purge any of them results in the memory > errors. There are no calls to fs_resize() in the mbx driver expunge. Something else is going on.

Re: problems with large imap folder/file

2003-10-06 Thread Harondel J. Sibble
On 6 Oct 2003 at 13:26, Mark Crispin wrote: > There are no calls to fs_resize() in the mbx driver expunge. Something > else is going on. I would like to know what that is. Heh, me too. Something else is going on indeed, just called the client back and it's working fine now, while 1 hour ago i