Subject: Re: HELP :"Out of free storage."

From: MATHER <[email-masked]>
Date: 7 Oct 1996 13:15:59 GMT

[email-masked] (Ve'rte'nyi Ga'bor) wrote:
>              Hello!
>
>     What shall I do? I get such a message when I want to
>   read my messages in my INBOX folder:
>   Bug in Pine detected. "Out of free storage".
>   And it drop me out.
>   I got some place on my userdisc.
>
>                            Thanks
>
>                                     Gabor V. 

If you are the system administrator, increase the size of the partition 
that mail resides on.  If not, delete some of your files in your 
directory, and then delete some mail.  As a system administrator myself, 
I can't stand mail pack rats!  Print it out and keep it if it is 
important!

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From: Timothy Luoma <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 1996 12:00:03 -0400 (EDT)

> I can't stand mail pack rats!  Print it out and keep it if it is 

When I keep email I do so because I want to be able to reference it later
on, which I would much rather do via the Unix file tools (ie grep etc)
than flipping through pages and pages of printed out email messages.  Who
needs more paper in their life?

Of course, I also sort my mail into various folders, and keep a minimal
amount of messages in my INBOX, so I never have to worry about that OUT OF
SPACE message.

TjL

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From: [email-masked] (Ve'rte'nyi Ga'bor)
Date: 4 Oct 96 18:37:32 +0100

Hello!

                            Thanks

                                     Gabor V.

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From: David L Miller <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 14:17:51 -0700

> >   Bug in Pine detected. "Out of free storage".

What version of Pine are you using?  There have been bugs in some
older versions that caused failures like this....

> I can't stand mail pack rats!  Print it out and keep it if it is 

The "Out of free storage" message does not have anything to do with
disk usage.  It is triggered when malloc() is unable to allocate more
memory... 

--DLM

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