From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 22 13:35:11 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60CB016A4DD for ; Sat, 22 Jul 2006 13:35:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (dsl081-142-072.chi1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.142.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8B6F43D46 for ; Sat, 22 Jul 2006 13:35:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from p17.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-100.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.100]) (authenticated bits=0) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.13.6/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k6MDZ4Ml055253; Sat, 22 Jul 2006 08:35:04 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20060722083423.025588a8@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 08:34:52 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona In-Reply-To: <20060722084258.9490.GERARD@seibercom.net> References: <20060722084258.9490.GERARD@seibercom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: Corrupt MBOX X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 13:35:11 -0000 Install pine and try reading it using pine. -Derek At 07:43 AM 7/22/2006, Gerard Seibert wrote: >For whatever reason, once the size of any MBOX in /var/mail exceeds >approximately 30M it becomes corrupt. Qpopper refuses to deliver the >mail. Attempting to open the MBOX with pico causes a warning about 'file >with long line' being issued. > >I have both postfix and procmail installed. I am fetching the mail from >remote sites via fetchmail. I have tries removing both fetchmail and >procmail and having the mail delivered directly to my server, but the >problem still exists. The situation was the same when I was using >sendmail as opposed to postfix. > >I have other files on the drive that exceed this size and they are not >corrupted. Is there some setting in FBSD that I should be tweaking? This >has really got me stumped. > > >-- >Gerard Seibert >gerard@seibercom.net > > > >Windows 3.1 >The best $89 solitaire game you can buy >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >-- >This message has been scanned for viruses and >dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >believed to be clean. >MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support.