Re: Too many msg* files.

[Earl Hood <earl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On June 2, 2004 at 10:16, "Lanham Rattan" wrote:

> Are the msg* files required to keep?  I am running mhonarc on an NT system
> and have > 17,000 files in the folder, NT doesn't like that many files.  I
> haven't seen a FAQ on NT setup's so I am looking to the list for ideas of
> how to minimize the number of files.

The msg* files are needed if you want to be able to view archived
messages.

An approach is to break up your archive into period-based archives.
For example, break up the archive by month.

You can take a look at mharc, <http://www.mhonarc.org/mharc/>.
It is Unix-oriented, but it should be usable under Win32, but you
may need to install cygwin, <http://www.cygwin.com/>.

--ewh