On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Ken Hornstein <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> I'm personally willing to write code to make it so if rmmproc exceeds > >> MAXARGS it will run rmmproc multiple times. > > > >Or bail out and let the user do that manually? Is this something > >that people do often? Personally, if I tried to rmm a large number > >of messages, it would be a mistake. > > Personally, bailing out seems wrong; I don't think the designers considered > the MAXARGS limit as a feature, but probably thought "no one would ever be > crazy enough to want to delete 1000 messages at once". Yet here we are :-) I've run into that issue many times over the years, so this isn't anything new. I just worked around it by deleting messages in groups of 1000 or less. Thanks Jeff -- Jeffrey C. Honig <[email protected]> http://www.honig.net/jch GnuPG ID:14E29E13 <http://www.honig.net/jch/key.shtml>
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