[Gllug] Courier IMAP problems

[Stephen Harker]

Pete Ryland wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 02:06:51PM +0100, Stephen Harker wrote:
> 
>>Hi All.
>>I recently transferred the company email from uw-imap on Mandrake 9.0 to 
>>Courier-imap on Debian Woody. It all works fine and dandy except that 
>>very occasionally, emails will go missing. Usually when someone has 
>>filed an email away from their Inbox to a sub-directory somewhere and 
>>then gone looking for it later, and it's not there. I at first assumed 
>>that it was Outlook Express so I got them using Mozilla. But then it 
>>happened again and also recently to myself (using Evolution). So I'm now 
>>assuming there is some strangeness going on with Courier or Debian.
>>Could it be because the Mail partition is an ext3 filesystem?
>>Is there any reason why this should happen?
>>I don't really even know where to start looking as it is such an 
>>infrequent and inconsistent problem. Google hasn't as yet turned 
>>anything up.
>>Clues?
> 
> 
> Filesystem filling up perhaps?  On Debian, /var is used more than in other
> distros.

debussy:~# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1             2.0G  461M  1.4G  25% /
/dev/sdb1              15G   11G  3.3G  77% /home
/dev/sdb2             2.2G  320M  1.8G  16% /var
/dev/sda6             6.1G   33M  5.8G   1% /exports
/dev/sda7             4.2G  2.6G  1.5G  64% /mnt/files
debussy:~#

Seems to be loads of space.
SteveH


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