[Alpine-info] Problem with Alpine - mbox larger than 2GB

[Vincent Poy]

Greetings everyone:

I am running FreeBSD x86 using sendmail 8.14.4 and running Alpine 2.00 and
ran into a problem as I was busy and didn't get a chance to delete the
messages in my incoming mailbox before I rebooted the machine.  This is the
size of /var/mail/vince:
-rw-------  1 vince   wheel  - 3042803806 Sep 29 13:18:58 2010 vince

which is about 3GB.

What happens is that when I run alpine, in less than a second, it shows:

  ALPINE 2.00   MAIN MENU               Folder: (CLOSED)               No
Msgs


       ?     HELP               -  Get help using Alpine

       C     COMPOSE MESSAGE    -  Compose and send/post a message

       I     MESSAGE INDEX      -  View messages in current folder

       L     FOLDER LIST        -  Select a folder OR news group to view

       A     ADDRESS BOOK       -  Update address book

       S     SETUP              -  Configure Alpine Options

       Q     QUIT               -  Leave the Alpine program



                  Copyright 2006-2008 University of Washington
                             [Opening "INBOX"     ]

Problem detected: "Received abort signal(sig=11)".
Alpine Exiting.


       Attempting to save debug file to /home/vince/.pine-crash

Abort (core dumped)
vince at bigbang [2:05pm][~] >>

alpine works fine with other accounts and when I rename /var/mail/vince to
/var/mail/vince.old, it loads up fine.

I was reading this thread:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=478545

and basically when /var/mail/vince.old existed while vince did not, I loaded
the sent-mail folder and saved one of the messages to #driver.mix/INBOX and
then exit Alpine.   This created the following in my home directory:

vince at bigbang [2:10pm][~] >> dir INBOX
total 18
drwx------   2 vince  wheel  -   512 Sep 29 14:10:27 2010 .
drwxr-xr-x  44 vince  wheel  - 13312 Sep 29 14:10:33 2010 ..
-rw-------   1 vince  wheel  -     0 Sep 29 14:10:27 2010 .mix4ca3ab43
-rw-------   1 vince  wheel  -     0 Sep 29 14:10:27 2010 .mixindex
-rw-------   1 vince  wheel  -    44 Sep 29 14:10:27 2010 .mixmeta
-rw-------   1 vince  wheel  -     0 Sep 29 14:10:27 2010 .mixstatus

So I restart alpine after renaming /var/mail/vince.old back to
/var/mail/vince and it's supposed to see the mix-format INBOX and then
automatically start transferring messages there from the spool directory.
 The problem is that it doesn't do that but instead within 1 second of
typing alpine and running it, it does:

  ALPINE 2.00   MAIN MENU               Folder: (CLOSED)               No
Msgs


       ?     HELP               -  Get help using Alpine

       C     COMPOSE MESSAGE    -  Compose and send/post a message

       I     MESSAGE INDEX      -  View messages in current folder

       L     FOLDER LIST        -  Select a folder OR news group to view

       A     ADDRESS BOOK       -  Update address book

       S     SETUP              -  Configure Alpine Options

       Q     QUIT               -  Leave the Alpine program



                  Copyright 2006-2008 University of Washington
                             [Opening "INBOX"     ]

Problem detected: "Received abort signal(sig=11)".
Alpine Exiting.


       Attempting to save debug file to /home/vince/.pine-crash

Abort (core dumped)
vince at bigbang [2:11pm][~] >>


Does anyone know what might be wrong and is there any other command based
mail clients or tools I can use to get the file to 3x 1GB files but with the
files, it will actually end at the end of a message instead of chopping it
off partially?  Thanks!

Cheers,
Vince
Vincent Poy, Ph.D. - Astrophysics
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