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From: ryan@aladdin.uucp (Ryan Waldron)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Why does Configure limit #of aliases
Keywords: ELM, aliases, Configure
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Date: 27 Feb 90 15:46:57 GMT
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Reply-To: aladdin!ryan@ingr.com (Ryan Waldron)
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In article <1990Feb24.152425.1235@DSI.COM> syd@DSI.COM writes:
>ryan@aladdin.uucp (Ryan Waldron) writes:
>:When Configure asks how many aliases to include, why does try to limit this
>:number to the 50-1000 range?  Is there any reason (other than speed) that a
> [...]
>Remember everyone has the same size alias table, its not dynamic.
>(Maybe it should be, but no one has decided to deal with that problem).

  What I want to know is whether or not something is going to "break" if I
  change MAX_SALIASES and MAX_UALIASES in config.h to something greater than
  1024 (the value I am compiling with currently).  I know that it will take
  more memory and be slower, and all that, but will it work properly?

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