On Mon, 10 Oct 2022, Chime Hart wrote:
Well, I am trying to open alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.dance in alpine. Yes it crashes with the following: [Opening "alt.binaries.sounds.mp3.dance" ... ]Problem detected: "Bad msgno 1000001 in mail_elt, nmsgs = 1000000, mbx={news.ord.giganews.com:119/nntp/readonly/user="gn319759"}#news.alt.binaries.soun". Alpine Exiting.
Ouch, yes, you hit an issue with limits in the c-client library (which is what Alpine is built upon). One million messages is all that the c-client libray supports. I am not sure where that limit comes from and I have never investigated it, but that is your problem here.
Back again live, so are their either an article number limit or total number of articles in a group limit? And more importantly, can I get around these? Thanks so much in advance Chime
Yes, you can get around this. Press M S C and look for "NNTP range" and set it to the number of messages that you want to see in the newsgroup. A sensible number would be 500, say, to see the last 500 messages posted in the newsgroup.
I hope this helps. -- Eduardo _______________________________________________ Alpine-info mailing list [email protected] http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/alpine-info
