MB> The question I have is:  With Squish and a *.msg message base, is 
 MB> there a maximum message number that can be handled?  Back in "the old 
 MB> days" I would use the renumbering feature of CONFMAIL to renumber the 
 MB> messages periodically to keep the ranges more reasonable.

 JS> I've run into problems with *.msg in the past; they weren't
 JS> specifically Squish-related, but too many files in one directory
 JS> can be a problem. There was a DOS file system call that had a limit
 JS> of 1024 directory entries; it was obsoleted a long time ago, but
 JS> some utilities I had used it. Come to think of it, that's why I
 JS> moved from QM to Squish in the first place! 

I moved from CONFMAIL to SQUISH at Y2K, when CONFMAIL, which I had been
using since about 1987, no longer worked.

 JS> I think you'd be better off converting that area to Squish format;
 JS> I have 7,000+ messages in some of mine.

I might copy that directory to another PC and see how it works with squish format.

Thanks!

Mike Bourne

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