[plug] Mailbox mystery

[Brad Campbell]

Bernard Blackham wrote:
> 

> I just experienced another strange issue the other day with mail. The root
> partition filled up to 100% and although mail was still collected in the
> separate mail partition, it refused to be deleted via POP. So my sister's
> machine who's OE5 (*shudder*) collects mail every minute had about 700
> copies of each message of by this morning! Thought this might be of
> interest if anybody ever experiences the same phenomenon :)

You might find that on check, the pop server makes a tmp copy of the mailbox
in /tmp somewhere and works from that. A full root partition upsets a lot of things..

-- 
Brad....
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