Data copy error

[Andreas Schmidt <pi-c arcor de>]

Hi,

I just stumbled over an issue I can't explain. After sending a mail, I  
get a message "Saving sent message to file:///home/pc/Mail/sentbox  
failed: Data copy error".

Now, the file ~/Mail/sentbox is quite big:

***
$ ls -l ~/Mail/sentbox
-rw------- 1 pc pc 2148394623 May 27 11:29 /home/pc/Mail/sentbox
$ di -h ~/Mail/
Filesystem         Mount               Size     Used    Avail %Used  fs  
Type
/dev/mapper/sda5_c /home             400.6G   375.9G     4.3G   99%   
ext4
***

The disk space is quite low, I admit, but there still should be enough  
room left to add a simple, short plain-text mail. Also, as far as I  
know, ext4 can handle file sizes far beyond 2 GB. Could it be that  
there is a hard-coded limit for the size of mbox files in balsa?

I use balsa on Debian/Sid with MATE-desktop. Unfortunately, the version  
of balsa from the regular Debian repositories is quite old:

***
$ dpkg -l | grep balsa
ii  balsa                                         
2.4.12-3                             i386         e-mail client for  
GNOME
ii  balsa-dbg                                     
2.4.12-3                             i386         e-mail client for  
GNOME - debugging symbols
***

The latest update of balsa came just two oŕ three months ago, but  
compared with upstream, the Debian-packaged version is about three  
years behind. Could that explain my problem?

Of course, I always could split my sentbox and move very old messages  
to a backup. However, sometimes it is nice if I can search through all  
mails I have ever sent out -- that's why I've kept all sent mails in  
one file.

Best regards

Andreas

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