Package: chewmail Version: 1.2-1 Severity: important Hello,
while chewmail has ridiculous memory requirements, and tends to trash my laptop down to the need of a power cycle, it still has features that I cannot found in other mail archivers, so I'm stuck with using it. Here is another flaw that I found. I had a big mailbox file with some debian-private archives, and I ran: chewmail --days=0 --output-box=debian-private-%Y debian-private I didn't pay attention to the size of the debian-private mailbox, so chewmail thrashed my laptop to death. After rebooting this is what I found: $ ls -la debian-private* -rw-r--r-- 1 enrico enrico 0 2009-01-18 19:24 debian-private-2001 -rw------- 1 enrico enrico 0 2009-01-18 19:24 debian-private-2001.lock -rw-r--r-- 1 enrico enrico 0 2009-01-18 19:24 debian-private-2002 -rw------- 1 enrico enrico 0 2009-01-18 19:24 debian-private-2002.lock -rw-r--r-- 1 enrico enrico 0 2009-01-18 19:25 debian-private-2003 -rw------- 1 enrico enrico 0 2009-01-18 19:25 debian-private-2003.lock -rw-r--r-- 1 enrico enrico 5918720 2009-01-18 19:25 debian-private-2003.tmp -rw-r--r-- 1 enrico enrico 0 2009-01-18 19:25 debian-private-2004 -rw------- 1 enrico enrico 0 2009-01-18 19:25 debian-private-2004.lock -rw-r--r-- 1 enrico enrico 0 2009-01-18 19:25 debian-private-2005 -rw------- 1 enrico enrico 0 2009-01-18 19:25 debian-private-2005.lock -rw-r--r-- 1 enrico enrico 0 2009-01-18 19:25 debian-private-2006 -rw------- 1 enrico enrico 0 2009-01-18 19:25 debian-private-2006.lock -rw-r--r-- 1 enrico enrico 152059 2009-01-18 19:25 debian-private-2007 -rw-r--r-- 1 enrico enrico 0 2009-01-18 19:25 debian-private-2008 -rw------- 1 enrico enrico 0 2009-01-18 19:25 debian-private-2008.lock Yes, the original debian-private mailbox is gone, and the mails that it contained have not been written out yet. Hooray! The mailbox is lost. Luckily, this one did not contain private mail. Ciao, Enrico -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages chewmail depends on: ii libmail-box-perl 2.082-2 Manage a message-folder ii perl 5.10.0-19 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction chewmail recommends no packages. chewmail suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
