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From: marvit@HPLPM.HPL.HP.COM (Peter Marvit)
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Subject: Re: Corrupted .mh_sequences file
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Date: 30 Aug 90 22:13:19 GMT
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> When I use 'scan -file' on my maildrop, it seems to put most or all of the
> messages from my inbox folder into the 'pseq' sequence.  I'm not sure whether
> this is a feature or a bug :-).. but my folder is so huge that the long
> sequence makes MH think my sequences file is corrupted:

[[ stuff deleted ]]

> Ideas, anybody?

Unfortunately, you'll have to recompile MH.  Specifically, in
sbr/m_gmsg.c, sbr/m_readefs.c, sbr/m_seq.c, and sbr/m_sync.c, increase
the length of message sequence field (usually a char field[BUFSIZ]) to
2*BUFSIZE (about 2048) or larger.  Your binaries will be a bit larger,
but you shouldn't see any other problems.

I left it out of MH 6.7, so I don't have any diffs.

	-Peter "Being there" Marvit


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