Re: [vps-mail] Imap core dumps

[Harrison Hind <hhind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 07:08:41PM +0200, Godwin Stewart wrote:
> On Fri, 07 May 2004 11:51:21 -0500, Art Zemon <art@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > The problem went away when I upgraded to a VPS2.
> 
> Hmm... Upgrading to VPS2 just to receive a large e-mail seems a little
> overkill, don't you think? A VPS1-based solution, if there is one, would be
> useful...

  When I worked with UW-IMAP a few years ago on a different platform I 
noticed that it reads the full message into memory as it expunges and 
modifies the mail file.  We ran into a similar problem with very large mails 
and the process would run out of memory.  Which level of VPS are you using?  
Is it possible that your process size is not big enough?  The solution we 
ended up using was configuring the mail system to not accept mail that was 
bigger than what the imap(and pop) server would handle.
  Personally I don't think that email is the proper protocol to use to 
transfer large files, but I am continually bombarded with users who think 
differently... :(

Harrison.
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