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To   : Mike Bourne
From : Jerry Schwartz
Date : Sun Aug 10 2003 07:38 pm

Hello, Mike...

Aug 09, 2003 at 11:14, Mike Bourne wrote to Y'all:

 MB> I have a Squish question that I have not been able to find the answer 
 MB> for in the documents.

 MB> I have one message area that is rather active and I have gotten a bit 
 MB> behind in due to business travel and such.  Since it is the LINUX 
 MB> echo, it has a very high "good message content" rate, so I don't want 
 MB> to dump the messages, and since I have plenty of disk space, I don't 
 MB> have any real need to do so.

 MB> The question I have is:  With Squish and a *.msg message base, is 
 MB> there a maximum message number that can be handled?  Back in "the old 
 MB> days" I would use the renumbering feature of CONFMAIL to renumber the 
 MB> messages periodically to keep the ranges more reasonable.

I've run into problems with *.msg in the past; they weren't specifically 
Squish-related, but too many files in one directory can be a problem. There was 
a DOS file system call that had a limit of 1024 directory entries; it was 
obsoleted a long time ago, but some utilities I had used it. Come to think of 
it, that's why I moved from QM to Squish in the first place!

I think you'd be better off converting that area to Squish format; I have 
7,000+ messages in some of mine.

Regards,

Jerry Schwartz

mailto:jerryschwartz@comfortable.com
http://www.writebynight.com

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