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Re: Large mailbox not recognized



On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 03:34:19PM +0100, Robert Ian Smit wrote:
> I am not longer able to read a mailbox that has become very large.
> It's over 2 GB. When I use the change mailbox command and navigate
> to /var/mail I can see the other, smaller mailboxes, but this large
> one is not visible.

A signed 32 bit integer tops out at just over 2GB and becomes
negative.  That's a good guess for what's wrong, and the obvious (not
necessarily easy!) fixes are maildirs, or a 64 bit system.

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