[MlMt] Mailmate choked on large files

Matthew Cawood mattcawood at fastmail.com
Tue May 12 05:36:17 EDT 2015


That did it - although I couldn't find the rogue message in "All 
Messages". I found it in Gmail>Bin, the mailbox that was giving me 
trouble.

Thanks!

On 12 May 2015, at 18:53, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 12 May 2015, at 10:26, Matthew Cawood wrote:
>
>> MailMate encountered the following error: “Server response: “I5 
>> BAD [ALERT] Message too large. 
>> http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=8770”.”.
>> Mailbox: “[Gmail]/Bin”.
>>
>> The "Bin" folder has (Failed) against it. None of the options I'm 
>> given - Retry, Try Later, Take Account Offline - resolve the issue. 
>> Nor does the link. Nor does restarting Mailmate or my computer.
>
> Take the account offline and locate the large message (maybe using the 
> Size column in the messages outline). Delete it permanently using 
> “Message ▸ Delete Now”. This should stop MailMate from trying to 
> upload it to the server.
>
> Ideally, MailMate should offer to do this for you, but the IMAP server 
> error is a general error which just tells MailMate to inform the user 
> (this is the meaning of the ALERT status). MailMate does not know what 
> the actual problem is.
>
> -- 
> Benny
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