Mark Crispin wrote:
On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, Clive McDowell wrote:
I have a strange problem with an MBX format INBOX. It contains 6618
messages but only the most recent 33 are being displayed by PINE or
any other clients I've tried.
That means that the other 6585 messages were deleted and exp
; and the correct number of messages?
John,
no it reports 'No new messages, 0 total in INBOX' even though the file size is
203661024.
Clive McDowell
Information Services
The Queen's University of Belfast
e a manual repair. There doesn't appear to be a problem
with the message immediately prior to the first
one being displayed. Any advice on how to proceed will be gratefully received.
Thanks,
Clive McDowell
Information Services
The Queen's U
deliver to such inboxes if they exist. Is the best approach to use
mailutil for each user? e.g.
mailutil move /var/mail/joesoap #driver.mbx/home/joesoap/INBOX
Are there any other options?
Thanks,
Clive McDowell
Information Services
The Queen's University of Be
xists and newfile doesn't. Any idea why this
doesn't work?
Thanks,
Clive McDowell
Information Services
The Queen's University of Belfast
ser with
appropriate group permissions did not work. The second user had insufficient
permissions to remove the lock file and access the inbox. Obviously there was no
problem with the owner accessing the mailbox. Configuring Exim not to use lockf cured
the problem.
Clive McDowell
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- Original Message -
From: "Mark Crispin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Clive McDowell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "c-client" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 1:26 AM
Subject: Re: sharing mailboxes
> Sorry for the delay in re
ercise with Netscape and the same thing happens. The only difference
between the test and service machines is the level of activity. Both have the latest
version of imapd installed. Any ideas as to why these locking problems should occur on
a busy machine?
Thanks,
Clive McDowell
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