Re: Buffer exceeds maximum size

Re: Buffer exceeds maximum size

[Karl Kleinpaste]

Myriam Abramson <mabramso@cs1.gmu.edu> writes:
> I am getting often a "Buffer exceeds maximum size" message and can't
> read my email anymore. ... Any ideas?

M-x set-var RET debug-on-error RET t RET
then repeat the error and show us the trace output.

After you save the output when the error is tripped, then set-var
again with nil instead of t, to turn off further debug tracing.

Re: Buffer exceeds maximum size

[Phillip Lord]

>>>>> "MA" == Myriam Abramson <mabramso@cs1.gmu.edu> 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