It could be as J-W says. The pop daemon doesn't have enough memory available as it's scanning a Maildir that size.
I have never played with increasing the softlimit but go ahead and give it a shot. Won't hurt. Charlie -----Original Message----- From: Bob Ababurko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 11:57 AM To: vchkpw@inter7.com Subject: Re: [vchkpw] multiple issues.....cannot get in!! X-Istence wrote: > > On Jan 19, 2005, at 1:45 PM, Charles J. Boening wrote: > >> How many messages does the user have? I have seen this error when >> there are thousands of messages in a user's Maildir. >> >> >> Charlie >> > > I agree with Charlie. > > Thing to do is set the DATALIMIT higher, it is because it is unable to > use that amount of memory that is required to run through the entire > directory structure. > > There is normally nothing wrong with the Maildir itself most of the time. > > J-W Regeer > > > Is this synonomous with changing qmails softlimit via tcpserver?