[ale] [Fwd: Email deletions broke]

[Gary S. Mackay]

Well, I really hate replying to my own message, but I found out the problem.
The '/' root partition was full. Evidently the BRU backup program blew up a
night or two ago and filled up the drive with a huge file. After I cleaned up
the mess, everything started working again.

"Gary S. Mackay" wrote:
> 
> OK, as the saying goes, I touched nothing and noticed today that no matter
> what e-mail client is used (pine, netscape, IE, etc.) the email are not
> deleted, nor are they even marked as read. It's almost as if they are marked
> read-only or something.
> 
> Setup:
> RedHat 5.2 (kernel updated to 2.2.12)
> Sendmail 8.9.3-2
> fetchmail
> procmail
> 
> Fetchmail is pulling in all of my e-mail for one domain, and a bunch of
> individual pop3 boxes from various servers, then procmail disperses them to
> each user. Has been working fine for almost a year. In the last couple of
> days, I've noticed that the e-mail messages are still arriving just fine, but
> you can not delete them, mark them read, etc. I even telneted into the linux
> box and fired up Pine. It will not even mark the messages as read, let alone
> delete them. ('root' account included)
> 
> - Gary
> 
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