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In article <17588@gryphon.COM> oleg@gryphon.COM (Oleg Kiselev) writes:
} One of the recent MUSH "converts" has presented me with a complaint that MUSH
} trashes his mailbox when there is more than 1000 new messages in it.  I have
} not had a chance to check that it really is a problem with MUSH (and not
} filesystem out of space or something of the sort).   Has anyone else
} encountered this problem?

The default configuration for mush is to handle a maximum of 1000 messages.
If you need more, you can redefine the constant MAXMSGS in config.h and
recompile.  This limitation is mentioned in the man page, with a remark
about politely asking your sysadmin to make the change.

The static limitation on the number of messages is a recognized problem.
However, a large number of functions depend on it for declaration of auto
arrays, so changing to dynamic allocation is a major task.
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