[Info-vax] Large mailboxes

[Hein RMS van den Heuvel]

On Monday, November 30, 2020 at 12:25:41 PM UTC-5, Marc Van Dyck wrote:
> After serious thinking Marc Van Dyck wrote : 
> 
> > Yes I will do that next monday and report the results here.  
> OK, as promised, I tested. I does not work. 

Thanks for that! - I was tempted to do just that.
:
 
> But, when messages are read, an end of file marker is received 
> after some 16.000 messages, probably the first time the message count 
> goes through zero:

Yup - 1000000%65536 = 16960 

> 30-NOV-2020 17:28:02.39 - messages read : 16000 

Too bad there is no indication of the actual last message number read.

> Finished reading 1000000 messages at 30-NOV-2020 17:28:06.05 

That appears to be incorrect. It simply displays what was desired not what happened.

> So it is clear that sending more than 64k messages to a mailbox cannot 
> be trusted and should therefore be avoided. I think it should be stated 
> explicitly in the documentation. 

Agreed. And an error returned until fixed.

Hein.