Re: mutt - can't copy message, other weirdness

[Steve McIntyre <steve@einval.com>]

Tony Baldwin wrote:
>This is weird.
>I have mutt on my main box, running squeeze (amd64, blah blah),
>and on several accounts (one at gmx.com, one at gmail, and one on one of my own servers,
>this one, tony@tonybaldwin.org).
>I can't open any new messages, and they show without a subject.
>When I try to open messages, I just get an error,"Can't copy message".
>
>Now, I have the same three accounts set up with mutt on two servers also running
>squeeze (one is a little celeron 3.2ghz here in my office, and the other on linode),
>and they're all working fine (using the little celeron "server" in my office at this moment).
>
>So, clearly, the problem shouldn't be mutt or squeeze, but something going on 
>on the main box (the amd64/squeeze box).
>
>How would I even go about beginning to diagnose this problem?

Check you're able to create files locally. IME the most common causes
of this kind of problem is:

 * out of space
 * out of inodes
 * read-only filesystem

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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.                                steve@einval.com
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