Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 06:16:46 -0800
From: Walter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mail.dlu blob?
Mark:
I've not had a problem in this regard under the earlier betas.
I've tested this for a mail file (CCMAIL.DLU) containing nearly the
number of bytes you mention. As for MAIL.DLU, I've never encountered a
MAIL.DLU that large before. You must be the most popular person in the
World, you never delete anything, or you're getting APAMmed to
death... :-) Maybe you're on too many mailing lists? How are you set
on FREE memory just before Net-Tamer is loaded, and how much is left
after Net-Tamer is loaded? Some mailing lists can generate strange
header information that Net-Tamer might not understand. In addition,
and possibly because of unexpected header information, your MAIL.DLU
could now be corrupted -- especially if you are deleting some messages
and keeping some on a regular basis. In fact: even if header
information was ok, the process of deleting some, keeping some, and
re-indexing on a frequent basis -- especially for a LARGE MAIL.DLU --
can leave you vulnerable to corruption of MAIL.DLU. If your MAIL.DLU
contains file attachments, and particularly LARGE file attachments,
this might present a problem as well. I think that, in your
circumstances and assuming you don't go to another reader, it would be
better for you to read through your mail and use the <S>ave to
<A>rchive option in Net-Tamer when you run across a message you wish
to keep. After you are done, delete everything in MAIL.DLU, or leave
it alone altogether until you've read everything and can then
comfortably delete everything in the file.
In the event you haven't been deleting messages at all -- just
adding new messages -- I'd guess this comes down to too little memory
to support such a large mail file, or a corrupted MAIL.DLU. The
solution for the former is to make more memory available to Net-Tamer.
There may be no solution to the latter.
Walter Scott
In Message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark at Cross+Road's
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> had the following to say on Wed, 29 Mar 2000 00: 54:
09 -0500:
MARK> I've download a mail packet about 3-million bytes using the most current
MARK> beta and just cannot get this one to index correctly.
MARK> I've tried the trick of removing the mail.ieu file but that does not
MARK> reindex the file fully?
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