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

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Sun, 25 Nov 2012 09:55:42 -0600, David Levine said:
> Ken 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.

Anybody who subscribes to the Linux-kernel list is going to be
deleting about 700 messages a day.  So if you took a 3-day weekend
you can be looking at 2,000+ messages to delete.  exmh has some
special-case code that does it in chunks of 998 messages at a time.

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