Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Celejar Newsgroups: linux.debian.user Subject: Re: Problem with /var/mail file > 2GB with pop3 Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 19:30:01 +0100 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-user-request@lists.debian.org Mon Nov 23 18:21:10 2020 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.1 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FOURLA=0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, NICE_REPLY_A=-0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -5.5 Dkim-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding; bh=/6wR79uflo6e6ODWZGUfY4YvH00i35YVv3HOCTGwS7g=; b=uKTYa9FYeWxuJYfeSKY1oxmcZBjqrkEUtrEHt8LsRPdkW1ec/uLlD0botfDQUXVu4i qovQyLuc0DadLeH4+sW44D8xNvO/niPIxmaSnUJdd/u1MFunM4VgHT901+lVr+LLuxqe +tsbnXWSpoFOicyZ9d/NvkusFODU8IGmQr0UkHi5WjpEvYzwdI/eTj9jBsQEa7tH5ZeZ tMU7yjnshlKv8bXHIg8rqMjV05ceLZCEMCgDdJpdJlUSeF1NtjRupUj2hEp3KTd03xUb SDh6W58cfYOCHn3IyL7DcgkwPuOyYm0q7CQpwrgcySsMJR4S9owZK4KEgjFTqP2EZnsO Gl1g== X-Google-Dkim-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to :references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=/6wR79uflo6e6ODWZGUfY4YvH00i35YVv3HOCTGwS7g=; b=FBTOgOnov4rxKmhtvgly+xJgXNPCCgMNgGM2OW33aogWck7XdMIGXLYhHwbmmwBYzQ LwINlmsa/OaiYxdA//h4M0LFbHAVjuSNr+KrVHR1brF6Uj560pqxCx6YDH2knt9UwKdq p+X+dtKmm+OXVBkt0kcDEqg/fiDMURifzXmn2UFM4btJy8rg8/sp3bDyRDQN5Fbrkqfh LTZtIPI6MFYsXvxO0WVPBVZzRNJ1rSJVuZK7+cQLpc+Cis+0C+pG+6zYr8Vx2fttpR+R n22WeT+WFIbQSN4xBR+P3WTDDXvsQgCX0a+AxU7lqmGLbp//iQLSnfoqGqvYiZOYWQzC 23kQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM530opTgaTL+L61kR0ZHnaP1svUcw0lI0ImG74OtgiPlWB3IdRY7f avQOUUCQhk2AqIQgCyRqNRxvnYEW5/I= X-Google-SMTP-Source: ABdhPJwxEQe9DgskbGZfppjWXLaGcqhxOG5bqNVdSPtZuW/c7sHNBLWRYfBrsbtrIEjZkoalQNGoEA== X-Received: by 2002:a37:d08:: with SMTP id 8mr664427qkn.306.1606155651866; Mon, 23 Nov 2020 10:20:51 -0800 (PST) X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.32; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/769386 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20201123132050.ef1a31fe5a271dc1ddea3e9f@gmail.com Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 27 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2020 13:20:50 -0500 X-Original-Message-ID: <20201123132050.ef1a31fe5a271dc1ddea3e9f@gmail.com> X-Original-References: <4b6468f0-254f-9402-8667-9c0b71c7011f@gmx.at> <20201123102932.31a05be3@jresid.jretrading.com> <2gqiqf525ilnv8@mids.svenhartge.de> <202011230724.37311.rhkramer@gmail.com> <20201123153819.pt2qfp3pbnhihg5o@acr13.nuvreauspam> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.user:228972 On Mon, 23 Nov 2020 17:38:19 +0200 Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 23 nov 20, 07:24:37, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote: > > On Monday, November 23, 2020 06:15:09 AM Sven Hartge wrote: > > > Joe wrote: > > > > That's why we have IMAP, which doesn't use mbox. > > > > > > The IMAP protocal and the backend storage have no connection. > > > > Well, they do in a way -- if you use IMAP from your ISP for example, you don't > > need local storage on your email device (not any of mbox, maildir, or > > whatever). > > > > (I don't use IMAP (I use POP3), but I assume that if I were using IMAP as > > described, I could save emails on my local device, but I'm not clear on that > > mechanism / storage method.) > > It depends on the software used to retrieve the e-mails (via IMAP), e.g. > as far as I recall getmail can be configured to use either mbox or > Maildir as local storage. Correct: http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/configuration.html#running-mda Celejar