Re: How many messages can be in a mailbox file?

[Gary Frederick <gary.frederick@jsoft.com>]

Thanks,

more below.

Gary

Earl Hood wrote:
> On June 30, 2003 at 14:20, Gary Frederick wrote:
>
>
> > I am building a new archive. I just installed MHonArc 2.6.4 and am on 
> > Windows XP, 512Mb Memory, 20Gb free memory.
> >
> > I am trying to read an archive that has around 60,000 messages in it. I 
> > got the mail file by taking several smaller mail files and using formail 
> > to get them all into one email file. I have built an archive with the 
> > smaller files.
> >
> > MHonArc runs and runs and runs and then when it is probably done reading 
> > messages, hangs.
> >
> > Have others created new archives with 60,000 messages?
> >
> > Is there anything I can do?
>
>
> Maybe use mharc, <http://www.mhonarc.org/mharc/>.  With mharc, the
> mailbox can be broken up by month, or year, MHonArc archives, getting
> around the uber-archive problem.
>
> Since you are using Windows XP, you will probably need to install
> Cygwin to use mharc.

I want to have the one big file create the archive. I'll go with the 
previous files that are more or less broken up into the year they were 
posted (around 10,000 messages for each year).

I had installed mharc and played a bit. The css was inspiration for some 
of what I did. I plan to go back and work with mharc again - when I have 
time.

> If mharc is not your cup of tea, you can use the mbox-month-pack
> to split the mailbox into monthly mailbox files and then create a
> MHonArc archive for each month (something that mharc actually does).
>
> It is hard to say if the "hang" is due to the size of the mailbox,
> or some bug. Usually, if memory is a problem, you would get an out of
> memory error, but with Windows, who knows.

I could look a bit further if you are interested. Let me know what to 
look for. I may go test on Linux to see if it's different. I'll post if 
I find anything interesting, or will just get the archive built which is 
what I wanted in the first place :-)  (Using mharc is a good idea)

Gary
> --ewh
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