On 9/19/06, Glenn Hennessee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
It just gets stranger and stranger. Postfix did and does have mailbox_size_limit=0 so there is no maximum mailbox size. It did appear last night when I was checking that it might have something to do with the size of the mail spool because squirrelmail would work on accounts with no or small amounts of email but not on accounts with large email files. However, this morning I put that theory to the test by using a test account and sending messages with attachments. Right now the account has a spool file of 40 MB, more than two who are having problems, and squirrelmail works fine. Now that 40 MB is from 6 email and not 2000 emails so I don't know if that's an issue or not.
40MB wouldn't be a problem. I think the postfix default is something like 2GB. Number of e-mails within the file shouldn't be a problem.
One other thing, when moving from by dead RHEL3 system (the drive died but I was able to recover the unread mail (hang the dead drive outside the case and turn a big fan on high to keep it cool) after the ubuntu system was running. I merged the two sets of spool files with mmv (http://debaday.livejournal.com/33924.html) to append the new mail spool to the old mail spool. I don't see this as a problem but I did do it for those who had unread mail which was most. Most of my users are pop and so don't have large spool files as a rule.
Have you tried just pointing a local version of pine directly at the mail spool file? It should use the exact same library routines (c-client) to read the mail spool but might actually have more informative error messages (well, one can hope, anyway). Cheers, Tanner -- Tanner Lovelace clubjuggler at gmail dot com http://wtl.wayfarer.org/ (fieldless) In fess two roundels in pale, a billet fesswise and an increscent, all sable. -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
