'Word too long', or, How many mail folders is too many?

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From: y551025
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 01:37

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I have about 7800 mh mail folders.
In the past, this has worked (though exmh starts slowly!).

But now, upgrading to SuSE10.0, tcsh breaks (with a 'Word too long'
error)
in /etc/profile.d/complete.tcsh when the tcsh startup tries
to create an enormous FOLDERS symbol using `folders -fast -recurse`.
(On SuSE9.3, tcsh successfully setenv's the symbol, all 98KB of it.)

Is 7800 mh folders an unreasonably large use of mh?
Is there some standard way of using this many folders without
getting in trouble? (Or should I be focussing on getting tcsh modified?
:-)

Thanks.

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