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From: alpope@token.Sun.COM (Alan Pope)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.mush
Subject: Re: "mush -f" on a mailbox 1000+ messages big
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Date: 20 Jul 89 00:42:33 GMT
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In article <17588@gryphon.COM>, oleg@gryphon.COM (Oleg Kiselev) writes:
> One of the recent MUSH "converts" has presented me with a complaint that MUSH
> trashes his mailbox when there is more than 1000 new messages in it.  I have
> not had a chance to check that it really is a problem with MUSH (and not
> filesystem out of space or something of the sort).   Has anyone else
> encountered this problem?

Yes.  But it wasn't my mailbox (not /usr/spool/mail/alpope), it occurred
on a mail folder.  I expect it is similar.

There were about 1100-1200 messages in a mailbox.  On open I got a message
to the effect that it was going to ignore all of the messages past 1000,
or something to that effect.  I continued (though my initial reaction was
to kill the mush process) to go through the mail folder.  On exit
after I had deleted and replied to several messages, it appeared that
some messages were duplicated into the folder in a run, i.e., on exit
the last 120 or so messages (say 800-920, since I had deleted some)
appeared to be duplicated (as 921-1041).

But (aha!), this folder was a news group and it is just possible that I
saved the articles twice.  There did not appear to be any missing (unless
they were articles after the ones duplicated).  I almost never save
batches of news in quantities greater than 20 or 30 articles, so it 
struck me as likely that it was becuase I exceeded the 1000 limit, but
I do not know for certain.
						Alan L. Pope
						alpope@sun.com