On Fri, Mar 09, 2007 at 10:44:21AM -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: > [snip procmail log] > > In other words, the recipe is correct, but procmail can't deliver to > the mailbox file, and goes on to try other recipes. Why? > > $ ll Mail/-deb* > -rw------- 1 arlie arlie 52796850 Mar 9 10:27 Mail/-debian-user > > It appears that _mutt_ can add more messages to this file - when I save > them manually from Mail/-other - but procmail objects to its length. > > The problem's been intermittent because I occassionally find time to > read a few messages - or delete uninteresting threads en masse. But > since I'm not keeping up with incoming - not in general - I have a > problem. > > I've temporarily "solved" this by > $mv Mail/-debian-user Mail/-debian-user2 > but it obviously won't stay solved. > > I suppose the next thing to do is to find out whether the limit is > configurable - or write a cron job to rotate and retire incoming > mailboxes for my high volume lists, since I'm obviously not managing > to clean out uninteresting threads manually, fast enough to be > useful.
archivemail or maybe switch the maildir A
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