mysqldump error: Got packet bigger than max_allowed_packet'

Question

My application download mails over IMAP and stores them in a MySQL database. Earlier I was supporting mails size upto 10 MB and hence a \'mediumtext\' column to store the mail c

Answer 1

I had a similar error and would fail with packet size 512M on row 0. It was an innodb table that was apparently damaged (mysqlcheck showed OK). I ended up re-creating the table and then it worked fine with a small packet size of just 128M.