Re: [Evolution] Problem moving messages to inbox

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 22:52 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 16:34 -0800, Auerbach, Steven P. wrote:
> > I am trying to move messages from my Exchange server mailbox to my
> > Personal inbox. I get an error message which says:
> >
> >         Error while Moving messages to
> >         mbox:/home/spa/.evolution/mail/local#Inbox.
> >         
> >         Cannot append message to mbox
> >         file: /home/spa/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox: File too large
> >         
> > The file in question is in fact large (~2.1 GBytes) but I have plenty of
> > free disk space.
>
> Looks like a filesystem problem. Some Linux kernel versions can't handle
> files of over 2GB. This has nothing to do with free disk space. Try
> compacting your Inbox (File->Empty Trash) or moving some messages to a
> different folder (and then compacting anyway).

Could it be that he'll have problems no matter what he does to the
inbox, since 2.1GB is the size of a C int?

Still, I thought all of these large-file issues were fixed a long
time ago.

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