Subj : Purge, pack, renumber.
To   : mark lewis
From : Bj”rn Felten
Date : Thu Jul 25 2019 21:42:25

 ml> the best and most simple thing to do is to not purge, pack, or renumber
 ml> the message bases...

   As a general rule, that is a very good one.

   If however you feel adventurous you may try Johan Billing's crashmaint program (part of the CrashMail II program suite).

   I run it from time to time, like once a year or so, mostly to make linking a wee bit faster. It hasn't corrupted anything yet (after ten years) I simply run it like this:

crashmaint MAINT PACK

   Needless to say you have to use CrashMail II and tell it in the config how many messages you want to keep:

KEEPNUM 1000

   This for every echo. If no KEEPNUM is defined, crashmaint will not touch the echo. It will of course *not* renumber any message base, but it will become much smaller.




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