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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Bug#38714: critical error: Unable to collect mail. (possible out of memory)
From:       Jim Quinlan <jim () jquinlan ! com>
Date:       2002-04-02 10:02:45
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On Friday 22 March 2002 14:43, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> First of all, please don't send messages to a bug-number address if
> your message has nothing to do with the corresponding bug. Either
> use the bug report system at bugs.kde.org or send your message to
> the KMail mailing list at kmail@kde.org.
>
> On Friday 22 March 2002 04:30, Jim Quinlan wrote:
> > I am remembering that two days ago I used up2date from Red Hat
> > linux. I am running 2.4.9-21 kernel.
> >
> >
> >
> > 1.3.2 version using kde 2.2.2
> > Two days ago the program suddenly deleted all my mail in the sent
> > mail folder.  Disturbed but not realize that there may be a
> > problem.
> >
> > Yesterday I attempted to send mail to multiple recipients. Mail
> > went into the outbox. Then I got a message unable to send mail.
> > Followed by critical error: unable to collect mail. ( out of
> > space?)
>
> For some reason a message couldn't be written on your hard disk. Are
> you sure that you have enough space on your hard disk?
>
> > I send all my mail first to Yahoo! and then collect it from there.
> > So I looked at what mail was there. Noticed that the oldest mail
> > was 431 KB long. This corresponded with how high your progress
> > counter got before I would get the critical error.
> >
> > So I moved the item out of the inbox of Yahoo. Retried to retrieve
> > mail. Got a bunch of them and then the same message. Noticed that
> > I had another large 430+K message. Moved it and retried. Got
> > another bunch of messages and then the error message. Yes it was
> > another 430+ message. These Large messages are not new. I have
> > been receiving them for months. For your curiosity I have about
> > 550 Meg of saved e-mails in kmail.
>
> It's very likely that your hard disk is nearly full. Why else should
> you all of the sudden have problems with large messages if it worked
> before?

Partition has over 1 gigabyte available.

>
> > Tonight when I try to download mail I get the critical error
> > message instantly. However I go back to my Yahoo inbox and
> > discover that the number of e-mails is lower. So I try to download
> > Kmail again. Get the error. Go to Yahoo and the number of e-mails
> > is now lower. I did this a couple of times and now there is no e
> > mail in my Yahoo inbox. My Kmail is indicating that I have new
> > mail.
> >
> > But I am afraid to send out mail using Kmail . Not so afraid
> > however as to not use to send you this bug message. So if you have
> > a million messages from me  - There You go Boys.
>
> Actually your message arrived 3+1 times.

and it is still doing it. I have been using Kmail for several months 
and then suddenly everything went strange.


>
> > what follows is the non-deliverable message for one person ( 34 of
> > them actualy came through ) I'm just showing you one
>
> This message just says that your ISP couldn't reach msn.net for one
> day. This is a problem with your ISP or msn.net but certainly not
> KMail.
>
> Regards,
> Ingo

I have found that Kmail installs through KDENETWORK package. Am I 
correct?
If I were to uninstall KDE 2.2.2-2 ( I think  I'm using -2 since I was 
told by Kpackage that 2.2.2-1 had a newer verison installed.) will I 
lose my message folders and parameters that are already in place. 

I am now able to retrieve only one message at a time - get the full  
message - click ok and 1 new email registers. Have to repeat this 
cycle everytime. 

I had one very large folder which I exported ( 4.1 meg to text ) and 
then deleted every message in the folder. 

This did not cure any problems. 

I installed KDE through the Redhat 7.2, Now it appears that if I want 
to install kde I have to install around 47 packages. Do I correctly 
understand that ?!  It was a simple install KDE when I did the 7.2 
installation. 

There is no universal package available to install the works of KDE. 
Right?

To my knowledge I don't have a size restriction on any partition. I 
seem to recall reading somewhere ( in all those books on Linux ) that 
it is possible to set a limit. If free space drops below this point 
sort of thing. Is there such a control and where ( if true ) would I 
find this parameter so I can change it.

Thanx.



-- 
Be Good to Yourself
      Jim Quinlan

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