Re: running out of disk space

On Thu, 2 Jul 2009, Mark Crispin wrote:

>> Ideally, dmail should fail gracefully.
>
> It's supposed to, yes.

My bad. I had an old version on my old desktop; dmail has no --version 
argument but I'm guessing it's from 2006 or earlier.

replicating error by deliberately filling up a Linux ext3 partition:

old version:
Error updating mix index file
message delivery failed to /boot/foobar/mail/xxx
invalid mailbox name foobar+mail/xxx
delivered to /var/spool/mail/foobar
- leaves mailbox broken
subsequent attempts:
Oversize mix status record
Can't open append mailbox: Success
message delivery failed to /boot/foobar/mail/xxx

new (2007) version:
Error flushing mix index file
Error in mix status sequence record, i=4a53bce4, seq=4a53bce5
Reclaimed 22789 bytes of expunged space
message delivery failed to /boot/foobar/mail/xxx
invalid mailbox name foobar+mail/xxx
delivered to /var/spool/mail/foobar
- leaves mailbox OK