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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