From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/6960 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phillip Lord Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Buffer exceeds maximum size Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 19:43:11 +0100 Organization: University of Newcastle upon Tyne Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1143747653 29229 80.91.229.2 (30 Mar 2006 19:40:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 19:40:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Mar 30 21:40:51 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FP30N-0002aF-Ny for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 21:40:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FP30N-0005re-Ad for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:40:27 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!feed3.jnfs.ja.net!jnfs.ja.net!news.ncl.ac.uk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: dinley.ncl.ac.uk Original-X-Trace: ucsnew1.ncl.ac.uk 1143744191 8820 128.240.150.78 (30 Mar 2006 18:43:11 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@newcastle.ac.uk Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 18:43:11 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:qyqEza1wJOVg2HNQh6hLeig9imY= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:77143 Original-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:6960 Archived-At: >>>>> "MA" == Myriam Abramson writes: MA> Just to answer my own question, I found out that I split my mail MA> with nnmail into separate folders and those folders just got too MA> big. Deleting the folder (that is the file corresponding to the MA> folder) solved the problem. Maybe that could be handled better, MA> so that only the last n messages are loaded. Anyway, I am glad I MA> solved my problem so that I can continue using gnus for email Have you though about setting up auto-expiry; if you archive your messages after a year or so, to a year archive group you should be alright? Or you could try moving to a 1 file per message backend; although this is likely to create a lot of files, unless you get few mails with huge attachments. Cheers Phil