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

[Kevin Cosgrove]

On 26 November 2012 at 16:42, address@hidden 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.  ;-)

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Kevin