[Novalug] Thunderbird 3 puzzlement

Rich Goodwin Rich.Goodwin@cox.net
Sat Jul 10 10:02:27 EDT 2010


On Fri, 2010-07-09 at 23:21 -0400, cmhowe@patriot.net wrote: 

> List,
> 
> I want to use Thunderbird 3.0 instead of SquirrelMail (Web Mail) but the
> following happens.
> 
> I click on the Thunderbird icon and get an ok-looking screen. I compose a
> message, then click on Send. Momentarily it seems to be ok,  but then a
> box appears with the title "Alert". A message appears, "The current
> command did not succeed. The mail server responded:Not enough disk space.
> Then a successor box shows up: "There was an error copying to the message
> to the Sent folder. Retry?"
> 
> I haven't described everything, but the two quotes are exactly as written.
> And I can't send anything. This message is sent from SquirrelMail.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Charlie
> 
> 
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Charlie,

I hate to ask the obvious - how much disk space is there on the
partitions?  You can do a " df -k" command (for disk free with block
size shown).  Here's my system:

        rich@tux:~$ df -k
        Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted
        on
        /dev/sda1             24027628  14400868   8406224  64% /
        none                   1023656       328   1023328   1% /dev
        none                   1030792       500   1030292   1% /dev/shm
        none                   1030792       332   1030460   1% /var/run
        none                   1030792         0   1030792
        0% /var/lock
        none                   1030792         0   1030792
        0% /lib/init/rw
        /dev/sda7             29830392   8060372  20254692  29% /data
        /dev/sda6             38448276  28998692   7496484  80% /home
        /dev/sdb1              6649456   4890960   1758496
        74% /media/2FC7-B8EA
        /dev/sdb5              8490656   6555876   1503472
        82% /media/data
        /dev/sdb3               495844      2318    467926
        1% /media/sav
        /dev/mapper/truecrypt11
                               6192448   4800420   1077468
        82% /media/truecrypt11

The home partition needs to have free space.  I highlighted the home
partition and root partition.  It seems to me that

     1. the home (possibly root) filesystem may be full
     2. there is a permissions issue somewhere so Thunderbird is not
        allowed to write to the Sent folder

Some other questions that may help are

      * How did you install Thunderbird?  Using a package manager?  
      * How are you starting it - via command line or GUI?  
      * Did you test the account configuration when you created it?


Rich
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