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

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From: Nico Kadel-Garcia
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 04:29

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<y551025@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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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?
> :-)

Yes, there is. Use a mail system and shell that are more maintained in this 
millennium, since both csh and mh have very much fallen out of favor. If you 
insist on using both of them, strongly consider dumping a *LOT* of those 
folders.

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