[Mageia-discuss] Problems with Local Mail

Tue Jun 26 08:52:48 CEST 2012

Anne Wilson a écrit :
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+> On 25/06/12 11:55, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
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+>> On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 11:36:56 +0100 Anne Wilson<annew at kde.org>
+>> wrote:
+>>
+>>      
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+>>> Plain M2 :-)  Every time I started Thunderbird I got a message
+>>> that it couldn't locate the local mail spool (can't remember the
+>>> exact words). Assuming it meant /var/spool/mail/anne, I touched
+>>> that, owned anne:mail (I tried root, too), but now the message is
+>>> "Unable to truncate spool file /var/spool/mail/anne".
+>>>
+>>> I don't have the problem on the Cauldron netbook, so I checked
+>>> there, and there is no /var/spool/mail/anne - so I guess
+>>> something has changed wrt local mail.  Are we now talking about
+>>> ~/.local/share/local-mail/ ?  What do I need to do now?
+>>>
+>>> Anne - --
+>>>        
+>> /var/spool/mail/anne is the system mailbox for user anne.
+>> Thunderbird will be putting your mail somewhere else.  I suspect
+>> that it will be a dot-directory under /home/anne, perhaps a
+>> subdirectory of your .mozilla directory.
+>>
+>> I think that TB uses the mbox file format.  That means that your
+>> inbox will be one big file.  Perhaps TB is trying to delete the
+>> old mails, hence "truncate."
+>>
+>>      
+> That makes sense, yes.  I had assumed that it was talking about system
+> messages, which I would expect to be in /var/spool/mail/anne.
+>
+> I am using IMAP - not Disconnected IMAP - IOW, I don't store mail
+> locally (though I did previously), so that shouldn't be the problem.
+> All the same, I'll give it some thought.
+>
+> Thanks
+>
+> Anne
+> - -- 
+>    
+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
+
+