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I’m having trouble with the Moblog module.  The error I get when checking the email is:

Error writing attachment
Unable to parse email.

I’m running ExpressionEngine 1.6.9, Build: 20100430.  My moblog directory is writable with 777 and it has worked in the past.  I’m not sure exactly what has changed.

Furthermore, it looks like each moblog check is downloading a copy of the file and has now downloaded 293 copies of the file into my image directory since June 25th.  Here’s what I’m seeing in the directory:

photo100.jpg
photo1101.jpg
photo11102.jpg
photo111103.jpg
photo1111104.jpg
photo11111105.jpg
photo111111106.jpg
photo1111111107.jpg
photo11111111108.jpg
photo111111111109.jpg
photo1111111111110.jpg
photo11111111111111.jpg
photo111111111111112.jpg
photo1111111111111113.jpg
photo11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111112222222222222222222222222222222222234.jpg

I suspect a server-side change. Does this happen with new entries, or is it stuck on this one? Can you clean out the mailbox and see if this persists?

I’m seeing it with 2 of the 3 messages in the inbox.  The problem goes away when I remove the messages from my inbox, but then there are no messages to process so I wouldn’t expect there to be a problem.

What can I do the troubleshoot?

Double check the paths to your entries. Have those changed?

Old and new entries look exactly the same.  They’re all using filedir_2. 

https://ellislab.com/asset/images/ent-partner-logo/photo8.jpg

If you clear out the inbox and try with a new email, does that then work? How about a different file upload directory?

Looks like this was a memory overflow problem.  The filesizes of the photos from the iPhone 4 have increased dramatically and the resize is taking up too much memory on my server.  Selecting a smaller size to email from the Camera Roll allows the moblog module to work properly.

Thanks for coming back to us with the solution to the issue. Don’t hesitate to post again as needed.