Re: Mailbox problem... messgae too large

2004-01-29 Thread Colin Watson
On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 10:14:13AM +0100, Sebastiaan wrote: > Seems it's solved, but if your mailbox (thus the file > /var/spool/mail/X) is in use, check the processes which are using it: > fuser -av /var/spool/mail/XX FWIW, Debian's canonical mail spool location has been /var/mail rather

RE: Mailbox problem... messgae too large

2004-01-29 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, On Thu, 29 Jan 2004, Ian Perry wrote: > Thanks Brian. > > This works fine for all other accounts except the one in question. > I have no doubt I will need a linux solution in the future. > > The session looks like this > > mserver:~# telnet localhost 110 > Trying 127.0.0.1... > Connected to l

Re: Mailbox problem... messgae too large

2004-01-28 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jan 29, 2004 at 12:16:22PM +1100, Ian Perry wrote: > Any ideas would be helpful as there are other mails in the box which we > don't really want to lose. Use mutt? - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : `. `'` proud

Re: Mailbox problem... messgae too large

2004-01-28 Thread Adam Aube
On Wednesday 28 January 2004 11:10 pm, Ian Perry wrote: > After the telnet session... what's the command to leave pop3 ? IIRC, it is the same as in SMTP: quit Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Mailbox problem... messgae too large

2004-01-28 Thread Ian Perry
to receive mail. PS: After the telnet session... what's the command to leave pop3 ? Regards Ian -Original Message- From: Brian Schmidt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 29 January 2004 12:40 PM To: Ian Perry Cc: Debian Users Subject: Re: Mailbox problem... messgae too larg

Re: Mailbox problem... messgae too large

2004-01-28 Thread Brian Schmidt
Ian Perry wrote: Hi, I have a mailbox here where someone sent a 141MB (yep.. 141 meg) message to it, and now we cannot delete that message. Mail(x) responds with, fseek: Invalid argument panic: temporary file seek Segmentation fault client email programs time out. Other than deleting the entire

Mailbox problem... messgae too large

2004-01-28 Thread Ian Perry
Hi, I have a mailbox here where someone sent a 141MB (yep.. 141 meg) message to it, and now we cannot delete that message. Mail(x) responds with, fseek: Invalid argument panic: temporary file seek Segmentation fault client email programs time out. Other than deleting the entire mailbox, does any