[pmmail-list] PMMail message archiving <#@$%>

[Bruce Francis]

On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 13:23:18 -0300, PMMail OS/2 Support wrote:

>On Sun, 15 Jul 2001 12:27:21 -0400 (EDT), Bruce Francis wrote:
>>Is this a known bug with PMMail/2 ?
>
>Umm... no?
>
>I don't know for sure. I have had random reports of "strange things"
>(my definition) happening with large #s of messages in PMMail/2.
>
>However, in general, I always rationalize this: PMMail was probably
>not originally written with the anticipation of 16,000 messages in a
>folder and, since we're relying on the actual OS file system to do
>most of the work, who knows what might happen in this situation? I
>don't. :-(

OK... but, but, but.... the originator seemed pretty certain that the
magic number was (approx?) 16,000.  If this is a "magic" number to
PMMail/2 then it should be easy to duplicate and to find a specific
problem.

I can't imagine it being a problem with the OS/2 file system.  16,000
files really isn't that much (unless you're using FAT), and I would
think that there must be tons of commercial applications in place that
are using far more than 16,000 files under OS/2.....  ??

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