[arachne] Re: Arachne 1.87 crashes when reaching the end of the 'sent mail' list

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Udo Kuhnt wrote:

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Hi Udo,
I think most People on this Arachne
list would feel that 2000 sent emails, as a limit
in your mail directory, far exceeds a reasonable
limit. I know I do. <ggg>





Eric



I have seen people who are using Outlook with literally thousands of
mails in their mail dir, so they would feel that is a very unreasonable
limit. ;-)

However, my question was not whether 2000 is a reasonable limit for the
number of sent mails, it was why the new limit has to be lower than the
current one.

And of course I wonder why an artificial limit is imposed on the number
of mails that Arachne will list to prevent it from running out of xSwap
memory or whatever instead of implementing a check whether there is
enough free memory for the next operation that would also make sure
that Arachne does not exceed the available space and crashes without
placing additional constraints.

An artificial limit does not offer the user a chance to remedy the
situation himself by freeing up additional memory, so it is the most
user-unfriendly and thus the worst solution I can think of.

Regards,

Udo


I agree 100% with Udo here. Although this isn't the question, 2,000 emails is totally reasonable. And even if it weren't, it shouldn't crash. And Udo correctly wants to know if such a limit has to exist, why should the new limit be lower than current?

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