I should also append that searching doesn't work in the same folder. The exact PINE error is (the same for the below problems):

[MAIL FOLDER "qmail" CLOSED DUE TO ACCESS ERROR]

This message is usually preceded by a very brief 'Couldn't search' or 'Couldn't sort' sort of message.

There are no file permission problems or other file system problems (out of space, etc.).

When sorting, does Courier-IMAP use temporary files or is it all in memory (I've looked, and it seems to be entirely memory based, but just checking to be sure)?

If anyone thinks PINE is at fault, just let me know, I'll turn on its debugging too.

=>Oh.. Yes. Forgive me for being entirely inept, it happens when I haven't =>slept enough. :> => =>Anyhow... I use Courier-IMAP 1.3.9 formerly, and as of today, I use =>1.3.12. => =>It's running with qmail-1.0.3 with the LDAP patches (hence using =>authldaemon.ldap). => =>The pine client connects to the server using SSL =>(mail/user=slepp/ssl/novalidate-cert) and is version 4.33. => =>The ulimit set in the configuration files is 65536, which should be a nice =>64 megs of RAM. => =>The mailbox I'm sorting is 1154k in size, with a total of 2519 messages at =>this point (it's a mailing list). => =>The sort succeeds on the smaller mailboxes, in the ranges of under around =>a thousand, but above that point it tends to fail. => =>If imapd is taking more than 64 megs to sort 2500 messages, then something =>needs to be looked at.. But I don't think that's the case. => =>This problem, and a strange one with authorization failure on first =>attempt guarantees every auth attempt after that fails (but I'm pretty =>sure I know why), are the only two issues I've had with Courier IMAP in =>the past two years or so... => =>The log messages from Courier into the syslog seem to be entirely useless =>when it comes to this problem I'm having, and since log messages don't =>seem to be dynamically configurable (except perhaps warn/alert) I can =>recompile if required for the debugging information. => =>-- =>| Stephen "Slepp" Olesen / VE6SLP =>| Edmonton, Alberta, Canada / (780) 425-4798 =>| President of Geeks Anonymous + http://www.geeksanon.ca/ =>+--------------------------------- => => => =>_______________________________________________ =>courier-users mailing list =>cour...@lists.sourceforge.net =>Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users =>