Aaron S. Joyner wrote:
Glenn Hennessee wrote:
Tanner Lovelace wrote:
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
I just tried that and it worked with no problem. I also just tried
formail -ds <oldmailfile >>newmailfile which will "convert a
non-standard mailbox file into a standard mailbox file." The input and
output boxes aren't quite the same size, the new one is 95 bytes
bigger than the old but squirrelmail can't access it either. I also
tried formail -s to resend my entire mail file to the test account
with the same result, squirrelmail won't show the mail. It's
interesting that the new mail file is 64355357 bytes and the old file
is 64002417 bytes, 350K bigger for the new.
glenn
350K bigger == new headers from going through the mail server again
I got some of the squirrelmail problems fixed by simply copying the mail
file to another file and then copying it back. I don't understand it.
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