Re: Failing to read new mail

[Chong Yidong]

jpff <address@hidden> writes:

> Since I reported this it has not happened again; but when it did there
> were two features that might be relevant; firstly my RMAIL file is
> large (currently 88Mb) and about 15000 messages.   Secondly the new
> mail was moderate in size -- about 1.5Mb
>
> I am continuing to run with "debug on error" hoping to catch it again.

Could it be the 256Mb buffer size limit?  Even with an 88 Mb RMAIL
file, maybe something like multi-byte encoding or the decompression of
an attachment could push it over the limit.  Maybe (point) in

 (rmail-decode-region start (point) mime-charset)

is overflowing.