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Igor Roshchin wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Sorry, if it's been discussed lately,
> but I couldn't find this.
>
> I am running 2.2.5-Release, and installed pine from the packages.
> (Computer has 64MB of RAM, and practically no processes running,
> besides sendmail, named and pop-server)
>
> When the user has a huge mailbox (~17M ;) ), pine,
> after trying to read INBOX, gives up with:
>
> Problem detected: "Can't resize free storage".
> Pine Exiting.
> Abort (core dumped)
>
> Any idea what it can be ?
>
> IgoR

  How much swap space do you have?  We ran into a problem where when the
users
mailbox got to full (larger than the available swap space) it would dump
the core.  you might check that.  just a suggestion. -steph