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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Limit on number of msgs in folder?
Message-ID: <1990Nov28.052729.16743@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 28 Nov 90 05:27:29 GMT
References: <1990Nov26.172740.16675@mozart.amd.com>
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
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In article <1990Nov26.172740.16675@mozart.amd.com> eleight@bali.amd.com (Elizabeth Leight) writes:

>Is there a limit on the number of messages in a folder that ELM can 
>handle?  We're running ELM 2.3 PL8; someone in my group has a folder
>with over 1,000 mail messages, and plain mail handles it okay,
>but in elm, the messages are displayed strangely, starting in the
>middle of messages, as though pointers to the tops of messages are
>messed up.

I've seen this happen when one or more of the messages contains
NULL characters, regardless of the number of messages in the folder.


Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us