On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 11:29 +0200, Neil Wilson wrote:
Hi guys,
Running SuSe 9.3 with dovecot 1.0.alpha3 source installation.
One of the users has quite a lot of important email in a folder, but when he trys to view this folder, it either sits and waits, and then times out, or just logs out straight away.
How many messages does the mailbox have?
Feb 6 09:22:08 mail postfix/qmgr[27221]: 198B96D1CE: removed Feb 6 09:22:08 mail dovecot: imap(ralphs): pool_system_malloc(): Out of memory Feb 6 09:22:08 mail dovecot: child 23018 (imap) returned error 83 (Out of memory)
You could try increasing mail_process_size to larger than the default 256MB. Although that should have been enough for even mailboxes with tens of thousands of messages..
One possibility would also be that the mailbox's index files are broken and Dovecot tries to allocate too much memory, which fails. You could try deleting them and reopening the mailbox. But please make a copy of those files first and if deleting them helps, send them to me so I can try to fix that bug permanently.
dovecot.index and dovecot.index.log files don't contain any sensitive information, but dovecot.index.cache may contain message subjects, from/to/etc. fields, so you might not want to send that without overwriting that data (I could write a program to do that).