On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 04:26:22PM -0600, Mark Pinto wrote: > Evolution has stopped being able to receive new emails. When I try to > fetch new mail (pop3), I receive this error message: > "Error while Feching Mail. Cannot append message to mbox file: > /home/markybob/.evolution/mail/local/Inbox: File too large" > > ls -lh on the file shows that it is 2.0G in size. What can I do short > of deleting emails?
This sounds like a filesystem issue. You're most likely storing your mbox file on a FAT32 or an older ext2 filesystem. While you could probably fix this by moving the mbox to a different filesystem, what you really SHOULD do is cut down on how much stuff you have in that mbox. Having a 2GB+ mbox file means that EVERY time you go to open up your mail reader, it has to open a 2 GB file and read every single line in it to get the list of emails. This is EXTREMELY inefficient. You should either switch to a file-per-email system (ala maildir) or use different folders as suggested by another poster. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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