[25678] in Athena Bugs
sun4 9.1.27: refile
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Mumpower)
Fri Jun 11 11:49:19 2004
Message-Id: <200406111549.LAA21905@dragons-lair.mit.edu>
To: bugs@mit.edu
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 11:49:16 -0400
From: Eric Mumpower <nocturne@mit.edu>
Errors-To: bugs-bounces@mit.edu
System name: dragons-lair.mit.edu
Type and version: Ultra-5_10 9.1.27 (with mkserv)
Display type: ffb
Shell: /bin/athena/tcsh
Window manager: /mit/windowmanagers/sun4bin/ctwm
What were you trying to do?
Refile a lot of mail using (n)mh:
> dragons-lair% refile `pick +backfromeurope --x-spam-flag yes` +europespam
> Create folder "/mit/nocturne/home/Mail/europespam"? yes
[ refile runs for quite a while ]
> refile: more than 998 messages for delete exec
At this point, no mail was lost, but I was left with double copies of
the mail I was trying to refile -- one set in the backfromeurope
folder, and one set in the europespam folder. (Yes, it was easy enough
to invoke rmm against the same 'pick' invocation, to achieve the
desired effect.)
What's wrong:
'refile' blew out after copying the messages, but before deleting the
originals from the original folder, due to some fixed limit in how it
invokes delete.
What should have happened:
It shouldn't have hardcoded limits of this sort; it should have worked
the same as if I had been refiling <999 messages.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
