Re: [Nmh-workers] rmmproc Not Used for Lots of Messages; refile Copies.

[Jeffrey Honig]

On Sun, Nov 25, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Ken Hornstein <address@hidden> 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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