Thanks Brian. This works fine for all other accounts except the one in question. I have no doubt I will need a linux solution in the future.
The session looks like this mserver:~# telnet localhost 110 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. +OK POP3 localhost v7.59 server ready user XXXXXX +OK User name accepted, password please pass YYYYYY (comment: there is a pause here of approx 30 seconds) -ERR Can't get lock. Mailbox in use Connection closed by foreign host. mserver:~# I solved the problem by another roundabout method.... Create dummy account on server Copy file to dummy account (in this case it was mailman) Go to Windows machine Log in using imap and move all OTHER messages to local mailbox on windows machine Delete mailbox from server Log in using imap and move messages back. Copy dummy mailbox to real mailbox Get client to receive mail. PS: After the telnet session... what's the command to leave pop3 ? Regards Ian -----Original Message----- From: Brian Schmidt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 29 January 2004 12:40 PM To: Ian Perry Cc: Debian Users Subject: Re: Mailbox problem... messgae too large Ian Perry wrote: > Hi, > > I have a mailbox here where someone sent a 141MB (yep.. 141 meg) message to > it, and now we cannot delete that message. > > Mail(x) responds with, > fseek: Invalid argument > panic: temporary file seek > Segmentation fault > client email programs time out. > > Other than deleting the entire mailbox, does anyone know of an easy way of > getting rid of that one message from the server ? > > Any ideas would be helpful as there are other mails in the box which we > don't really want to lose. > > Thanks > > Ian > > > telnet host.of.the.pop.server 110 +OK POP3 server ready user username +OK Please send PASS pass password +OK User mailbox has 8 messages (245793 octets) list +OK 8 messages (245793 octets) 1 18696 2 95954 3 1187 4 34837 5 1131 6 30235 7 31968 8 31785 . dele 8 +OK message 8 deleted. Sincerely Brian Schmidt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
