From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 7 13:59:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA28046 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 13:59:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iidpwr.com ([204.33.177.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA28041 for ; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 13:59:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.iidpwr.com id <15360>; Mon, 7 Oct 1996 14:00:03 -0700 Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 13:43:44 -0700 From: ttam Reply-To: ttam@mail.iidpwr.com Organization: Imperial Irrigation District X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b7Gold (Win16; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam David CC: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netscape mail (out of memory) References: <199610062139.VAA00429@veda.is> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <96Oct7.140003pdt.15360@mail.iidpwr.com> Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Adam David wrote: > > What's the deal with Netscape mail? I must be missing some configuration > detail? Whenever I try to mail from Netscape, it fails with: > > Netscape is out of memory. > > Try quitting some other applications or closing > some windows. > > There is no shortage of memory on the system when this happens. > As far as I can tell, I have created all the necessary files and directories > and filled out relevant configuration details, for mail to work in Netscape. > The SMTP server is reachable and functioning, but Netscape gives up before > sending the actual message data. Have you checked you have a lock file in your .netscape directory? As soon as I deleted that lock file, Netscape worked. -- Yours truly, ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Tony Tam | Tel: 619-339-9454 | | Imperial Irrigation District | FAX: 619-339-9189 | | Imperial, CA 92251, USA | E-Mail: ttam@iidpwr.com | -------------------------------------------------------------------------