On Mon, 25 Sep 2000 00:02:14 +0200, Or Botton wrote:
> Dale Mentzer wrote:
>> Gee, Or, maybe you should unsubscribe from your mail lists before you
>> go on vacation! ;)
> ... please notice the word "hypotetical" in the topic. I do not use
> a ramdrive for my e-mails. Infact, i dont use one.. at all.
> I only get about 70 messages a day. And I always unsubscribe before
> going to a vacation.
> Just wanted to clear it up.. I only asked about a hypotetical
> sitation, and I didnt actually had this happening to me.
> And I was refering to a friend as an example (who is using Communicator
> on Windows 95), who gets about 300 messages a day. more or less.
> (probebly more). It was just a general idea, that Arachne should
> have a thing for checking for file limit incase and the user decide
> for some unclear reason to store the mail in root, or for when
> you run out of space in general.
OK, *someone* had to test it.
That "someone" is me. ;-)
I set the root directory of my RamDisk as the Mail directory.
DI-Disk Information, Advanced Edition 4.50, (C) Copr 1987-88, Peter Norton
Information from DOS Drive L: Information from the boot record
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
system id 'F.UBERTO'
media descriptor (hex) F8
11 drive number
512 bytes per sector 512
2 sectors per cluster 2
1 number of FATs 1
512 root directory entries 512
250 sectors per FAT 250
63,858 number of clusters
number of sectors 128,000
1 offset to FAT 1
251 offset to directory
283 offset to data
sectors per track 8
sides 1
hidden sectors 0
Press any key to continue...
I then sent 600 duplicate messages to my own address.
(this telnet session shows 601 because 1 more arrived before I sent my 600)
Clarkson University Tcp Communication Package
Clarkson University Terminal Emulator [CUTE:2.2D/TC-D]
Alt-H presents a summary of special keys
+OK VOPmail POP3 Server-NOTF 4.3.183.0 Ready <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
user glennmcc
+OK glennmcc is welcome here
pass *********
+OK glennmcc's mailbox has 601 message(s) (529695 octets)
* mail.cisne 110 20:45
What happened when I tried to D/L those messages???
at message #507.... "Mail download aborted"
Why 507 ???
507 + \arachne\ + \temp\ + command.com + $idx$tbs.idx + $srt$tbs.idx = 512
So, the answer to the hypothetical question.....
The mail download will be aborted if the root directory limit is reached.
Now we know. ;-)
Glenn McCorkle [EMAIL PROTECTED] North Jackson, Ohio, USA
DOS prog. for QV cameras http://www.angelfire.com/id/glenndoom/qvplay.html
Other stuff http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
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