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Assuming it meant /var/spool/mail/anne, I touched +</I>>>><i> that, owned anne:mail (I tried root, too), but now the message is +</I>>>><i> "Unable to truncate spool file /var/spool/mail/anne". +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> I don't have the problem on the Cauldron netbook, so I checked +</I>>>><i> there, and there is no /var/spool/mail/anne - so I guess +</I>>>><i> something has changed wrt local mail. Are we now talking about +</I>>>><i> ~/.local/share/local-mail/ ? What do I need to do now? +</I>>>><i> +</I>>>><i> Anne - -- +</I>>>><i> +</I>>><i> /var/spool/mail/anne is the system mailbox for user anne. +</I>>><i> Thunderbird will be putting your mail somewhere else. I suspect +</I>>><i> that it will be a dot-directory under /home/anne, perhaps a +</I>>><i> subdirectory of your .mozilla directory. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> I think that TB uses the mbox file format. That means that your +</I>>><i> inbox will be one big file. Perhaps TB is trying to delete the +</I>>><i> old mails, hence "truncate." +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> +</I>><i> That makes sense, yes. I had assumed that it was talking about system +</I>><i> messages, which I would expect to be in /var/spool/mail/anne. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I am using IMAP - not Disconnected IMAP - IOW, I don't store mail +</I>><i> locally (though I did previously), so that shouldn't be the problem. +</I>><i> All the same, I'll give it some thought. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Thanks +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Anne +</I>><i> - -- +</I>><i> +</I>If you are using IMAP, by default it will download a message each time +you view it, instead of downloading once and leaving it on your +computer. (The plus is easier access from different computers.) +I don't know how mozilla (thunderbird or seamonkey) deals with IMAP, but +if a message is larger than the message size download limit, that could +be the problem. +With seamonkey the message size limit is set under +account_preferences/disk_space. (free translation from french) +I imagine that thunderbird uses a similar location + +With POP3 (which I use), it downloads the beginning of an oversized +message and displays "truncated. If you click on the link displayed, it +will then downloads the entire message, then deletes the partial message +that was first downloaded. +Maybe checking ~/.mozilla/thunderbird/xxxxxxxx.*/Mail/{accountname}/inbox +or similar will give you some clues. + +Regards + +-- +André + +</PRE> + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="008038.html">[Mageia-discuss] Mageia security updates (Tony Blackwell) +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="008040.html">[Mageia-discuss] Problems with Local Mail +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#8039">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#8039">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#8039">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#8039">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |