[7583] in SIPB bug reports
Re: exmh bugs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Fri Apr 28 07:27:11 2000
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To: Carolyn B Chen <carolyn@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Apr 2000 14:35:05 -0400."
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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 07:27:03 EDT
From: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
On Thu, 27 Apr 2000, Carolyn B Chen <carolyn@MIT.EDU> wrote:
>i'm up to the 10,000's in my mail inbox.
>On exmh, message "10729" shows up as "?729" so when i click on it, i end up getting message 729 insteand of 10729.
Unfortunately, this is a fundamental problem with the underlying
mh tools themselves. They are configured to only show four digits
when scanning messages, and so programs which try to interpret the
output of a scan listing will get confused if you have message
numbers higher than 9999.
The easiest way to try to deal with the problem is to see if you
can make it go away by renumbering all the messages in your inbox
so that the numbers start from 1 and have no gaps. In exmh, you'd
do this by selecting "Pack folder" from the "More..." menu above
the folder listing. (If you do this, the command will take a while
to finish re-scanning your inbox. Have patience; it's normal.)
If you have over 10000 message, you won't be able to pack them
underneath 10000 by renumbering, and the only solution possible
would be to change your default scan format. I'd rather not explain
how to do this, but you can look at the manpages for scan(1) and
mh-format(5) if you want to investigate it on your own. (If you have
no choice but to widen your scan format, I'll try to be more helpful.)
Let us know if you need more help.
Sincerely,
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Jacob Morzinski jmorzins@mit.edu
