Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 21:27:20 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Burton Sampley <bsampley@best.com>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: pine dumps core under -stable Message-ID: <199804200427.VAA03867@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Apr 1998 20:13:30 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.95.980419201237.12012A-100000@luke.cpl.net>
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> > Increasing the soft limits in login.conf won't increase the hard > > limits, which is what pine is running into. > > > > To put it simply - if you want to work with large mailboxes, use a > > better mailreader. > > Have any suggestions? Pine begins to bog really bad on this machine at > about 2000-3000 messages.... Mutt has a large, loyal following. I use exmh, and regularly visit my sent folder which I rotate at the 10000 message mark (~6 months). My inbox is at 9947 messages (651 live), and this is all quite usable on a 16M P133 with a sloooow disk. Prior to this I used to use elm, which is OK except when it eats your inbox. 8( -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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