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Posted to server-user@james.apache.org by Kenny Smith <ja...@journalscape.com> on 2003/07/25 19:42:14 UTC
Mozilla chokes on messages
Hi all,
I'm having a strange sort of problem. I don't really think it is James,
but I'm interested to know if anyone else has this problem. Everyonce in
awhile I will get a piece of SPAM (it's always spam, never legit) that
will sort of jam up my inbox.
I start downloading my messages and when it tries to download the spam
message, Mozilla kicks up an error message and stops downloading. The
message is:
"Unable to write the email to the mailbox. Make sure the file system
allows you write privileges, and you have enough disk space to copy the
mailbox."
Now, I have write permission and there is plenty of disk space. The
message being downloaded is generally very small (2k), definately not
the biggest message in the group.
I've looked through the pop3 log for James, I didn't see any exceptions.
I ngrep'd the communication between my client and james: it got the
sizes of the messages, got the unique ids, requested the first new
message (the spam) and got it. Communication over.
All I have to do is delete this message from my inbox table and all of
the rest of my messages will download just fine.
Has anyone had this happen to them before? Do you have suggestions as to
where I can look to try to debug this problem?
Thanks,
Kenny Smith
JournalScape.com
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Re: Mozilla chokes on messages
Posted by Kenny Smith <ja...@journalscape.com>.
Oops, I forgot I removed the message. I'll have to wait until it happens
again. Off to the mozilla bugs db for me.
Kenny
Noel J. Bergman wrote:
> Jay,
>
> The difference appears to be that Kenny indicates that Mozilla got the
> message, and then failed locally. In your case, as I recall, the message
> wasn't sent. Otherwise, I'd agree with you, and would have mentioned it.
>
> --- Noel
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Re: Mozilla chokes on messages
Posted by Kenny Smith <ja...@journalscape.com>.
Hi Noel,
Maybe I'm wrong and the message wasn't properly delivered.. I'm going to
try telneting and speaking the POP myself to see if I see any special
error messages. *shrug*
I'll definately look through the Mozilla bugs db though.
Thanks,
Kenny
Noel J. Bergman wrote:
> Jay,
>
> The difference appears to be that Kenny indicates that Mozilla got the
> message, and then failed locally. In your case, as I recall, the message
> wasn't sent. Otherwise, I'd agree with you, and would have mentioned it.
>
> --- Noel
>
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Re: Mozilla chokes on messages
Posted by Jay Kraly <ja...@perspectivesoftware.com>.
I just wanted to point out the similarity in case the error message is
misleading. Considering all the other bugs I wouldn't put it past
Mozilla to generate an incorrect error message for the same problem that
causes Netscape to hang.
-J
Noel J. Bergman wrote:
>Jay,
>
>The difference appears to be that Kenny indicates that Mozilla got the
>message, and then failed locally. In your case, as I recall, the message
>wasn't sent. Otherwise, I'd agree with you, and would have mentioned it.
>
> --- Noel
>
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RE: Mozilla chokes on messages
Posted by "Noel J. Bergman" <no...@devtech.com>.
Jay,
The difference appears to be that Kenny indicates that Mozilla got the
message, and then failed locally. In your case, as I recall, the message
wasn't sent. Otherwise, I'd agree with you, and would have mentioned it.
--- Noel
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Re: Mozilla chokes on messages
Posted by Jay Kraly <ja...@perspectivesoftware.com>.
This sounds very similar to the problem I had a week or two ago popping
email using netscape. It turned out to be a bug with james-2.1.2 (and
maybe earlier) that was fixed in 2.2.
I was able to determine it was a problem on the server-side by
telnetting in manually and trying to retrieve the problem message.
-J
Noel J. Bergman wrote:
>Kenny,
>
>>>From your description, it sounds like a problem in Mozilla (you said that
>you ngrep'd, and that the message was delivered, and then Mozilla had
>problems with local storage). You might want to check the bugzilla database
>for Mozilla's mail client. I've been shocked at the very high number of
>critical and major defects in their code.
>
> --- Noel
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Re: Mozilla chokes on messages
Posted by Kenny Smith <ja...@journalscape.com>.
Hi Noel,
I did find the bug in Mozilla. For reference (in the mailing list
archive) I found the bug here:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166111
Kenny Smith
JournalScape.com
Noel J. Bergman wrote:
> Kenny,
>
>>>From your description, it sounds like a problem in Mozilla (you said that
> you ngrep'd, and that the message was delivered, and then Mozilla had
> problems with local storage). You might want to check the bugzilla database
> for Mozilla's mail client. I've been shocked at the very high number of
> critical and major defects in their code.
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RE: Mozilla chokes on messages
Posted by "Noel J. Bergman" <no...@devtech.com>.
Kenny,
>From your description, it sounds like a problem in Mozilla (you said that
you ngrep'd, and that the message was delivered, and then Mozilla had
problems with local storage). You might want to check the bugzilla database
for Mozilla's mail client. I've been shocked at the very high number of
critical and major defects in their code.
--- Noel
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