Subject: Problem with deleting messages from INBOX

From: Joanne Attridge <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 17:29:09 -0400 (EDT)

Hi,

A user on my Digital Alpha workstation is having difficulty deleting
mail from his pine INBOX. He has a number of messages marked with 'D'
but when he quits pine, he gets an error which says:

	write failed:  file system full

and the messages are not deleted. I have checked the /usr directory and
there are currently over 50 megabytes free. His INBOX file is 15 
megabytes in size (he doesn't use folders :-). We do not have quotas 
installed on our system, and no other users are having this problem.

Thanks in advance for your ideas!

--joanne

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From: Vinnie Chassot <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 14:53:19 -0700 (PDT)

double check permissions and which partition the /var/spool/mail directory
really is. And if you're running digital unix, you might try
rebooting..there is a funky bug in digital unix that causes the
"mysterious growing partition" that fixes itself by rebooting (don't ask
me, I just work on 'em)

Vinnie

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On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Joanne Attridge wrote:

> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 17:29:09 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Joanne Attridge <[email-masked]>
> To: Pine Discussion Forum <[email-masked]>
> Subject: Problem with deleting messages from INBOX
> 
> Hi,
>