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- From: kinyon@next3.corp.mot.com (John J. Kinyon)
- Subject: Re: NeXT help: newmbox - length of mbox. != spool mailbox length!!
- Reply-To: kinyon@next3.corp.mot.com
- Organization: MOTOROLA
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 21:08:31 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.210831.17481@schbbs.mot.com>
- References: <1992Aug24.204413.21484@DSI.COM>
- Sender: news@schbbs.mot.com (Net News)
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- In article <1992Aug24.204413.21484@DSI.COM> syd@DSI.COM (Syd Weinstein) writes:
- > kinyon@next3.corp.mot.com (John J. Kinyon) writes:
- > >I am having trouble with a big mailbox. Is there a quick fix, or do I
- > >really have to read/save/delete some messages. I suspect that there is
- > >a limit of 4 MB for the mail spool or temporary file. Here is the error
- > >message:
- >
- >
- > > secadm% elm
- >
- > > Reading in /usr/spool/mail/kinyon, message: 896
- > > newmbox - length of mbox. != spool mailbox length!!
- >
- > > Write to temp file failed, exiting leaving mailbox intact!
- > Most likely this message has nothing to with file length limites
- > (unless you run a small ulimit) but more likely there is a
- > null byte in the mailbox, and 2.3 chokes on binaries (null bytes).
- >
- > 2.4 will be more tolerant of this.
- > --
- > ========================================================================
- > Sydney S. Weinstein, CDP, CCP Elm Coordinator - Current 2.3PL11
-
- The problem turned out to be not the filesize (that was set to 'unlimited')
- but 'datasize' which was set to 4 MB. Datasize is "the maximum growth of
- the data+stack region via sbrk(2) beyond the end of the program text".
-