[TriLUG] Squirrelmail and Dovecot problem

[Glenn Hennessee]

Aaron S. Joyner wrote:
> Glenn Hennessee wrote:
> 
>> Tanner Lovelace wrote:
>>
>>> On 9/19/06, Glenn Hennessee <Glenn_Hennessee at ncsu.edu> 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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Glenn Hennessee
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