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

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