On 26 November 2012 at 16:42, [email protected] wrote: > 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.
Agreed. Throughput and speed are two reasons that I use nmh and its kin. Just try to get speed and throughput with Yahoo, I dare ya. ;-) -- Kevin _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
