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Squirrelmail Postfix Allowed Memory error

I'm trying to access my email via squirrelmail but was given this eror:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 16777216 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 19456 bytes) in /usr/share/squirrelmail/functions/decode/cp1252.php on line 94

The email is on a mailgateway setup with postfix, dovecot and squirrelmail installed.

I notice that only this particular address is having this problem. There are other addresses on this virtual domain, and they all work fine.

I'm guessing this has something to do with the size of the INBOX since I'm using this particular address for automatic backup.

So my questions are:
1. What causes this error?
2. How do I fix it?
3. If the problem is the size of INBOX, can I increase the allowable size? There are plenty of space in HDD.

Thank You

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Hernst42: Thanks for the help and explanation. You pinpointed the problem and cause but the solution is a bit too much reading, given Bevhost's answer.

Bevhost: Thanks for the solution. Since Hernst42 pointed the cause, etc, so it'll be fair if we share. Btw, for Ubuntu users (such as myself), the path is:
#sudo nano /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
then afterwards you have to reload apache2.

Thanks guys.