----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Jul 28, 2004, at 7:49 PM, Andras Kende wrote: > > I found a deserted email account with over 70.000 messages (few months > > of spam) > > in my vpopmail 5.4.3 mail server on FreeBSD… > > > > If I try to pop3 these (Outlook, Outlook Express, Mozilla Thudnerbird) > > > > The problem is its responding like : > > > > Mail Sever … responded: unable to scan $HOME/Maildir > > > > Pop3 workaround is to not to have more than 1500 messages in the > > Maildir… > > > > Same problem happened after a week vacation, had to keep moving > > messages in and out of the maildir…. > > This would be your pop3 server, not vpopmail. For pop3 pickup, > vpopmail is only responsible for authenticating the user. Yep, and you will find the solution is to increase the memory softlimit on the POP3 supervise script. Michael.
