getmail crashes with a MemoryError
Bug #383819 reported by
Dan Drake
This bug affects 1 person
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python2.5 (Ubuntu) |
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Medium
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python2.6 (Ubuntu) |
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Medium
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Bug Description
Occasionally, getmail crashes while retrieving mail. It uses up a couple gigabytes of memory and eventually gets killed. I'm attaching the exception that cron emails to me and the results of "getmail --dump"
I'm using an updated Jaunty 64-bit system with 4 gigabytes of RAM.
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