[Info-vax] Large mailboxes

[Marc Van Dyck]

Hein RMS van den Heuvel expressed precisely :
> 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.
>
Yes, glitch in the testing code. I did not expect that to happen, so
did not account for it.

>> 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.

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Marc Van Dyck