[lug] getmail

Hugh Brown hugh at vecna.com
Wed Apr 25 13:40:18 MDT 2001


I don't know python at all but it looks like getmail is probably a script
and something on line 12 is unhappy, so I would go see what is on line 12
and start tracing that back to a function and use it as a chance to learn a
little python.

Hugh


"Ken Weinert"
> 
> 
> --BjavXC7V3ilNTWHC
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
> Content-Disposition: inline
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> 
> Does anyone use getmail?
> 
> It has been working fine, but it has recently decided to stop working
> for me. It's a python program, so maybe this will look familiar to some
> one on the list.
> 
> When I run getmail I get the following error:
> /usr/local/bin/getmail: line 12:  5481 File size limit exceeded"$PYTHON"
> ${GETMAILPATH}/getmail.py $@
> 
> But I don't know what file is too large.
> My mailbox is only 31670 bytes long so I doubt that that is it.
> 
> Any hints will be greatly appreciated.



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