[Alpine-info] maximum number of messages per folder exceeded

[Eduardo Chappa]

On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, Dimitrios Apostolou wrote:


:) I recently got a crash while trying to load the gmane.linux.kernel 

:) newsgroup. The error message in .pine-crash was:

:) 

:) q_status_message(Folder has more messages (1023154) exist than maximum

:) (1000000))

:) 

:) Perhaps this 1M maximum can be raised to some 2G or 4G on the next 

:) alpine version (BTW when is it planned for)? Is there any other limit I 

:) should be concerned?


Well, while it is true that the limit can be raised, you could also go 
around this by not attempting to download 1 million posts. The point is, 
that only a subset of that you will read before you quit Alpine. What you 
could is to use the "NNTP Range" to make Alpine download a subset of the 
posts.

-- 
Eduardo
http://staff.washington.edu/chappa/alpine/