RJT> Mike Bourne wrote in a message to Y'all:

 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
 MB> old days" I would use the renumbering feature of CONFMAIL to
 MB> renumber the messages periodically to keep the ranges more
 MB> reasonable.

 RJT> Interesing question!

One that was starting to bother me.

 RJT> I know that in one case here,  where the "settings" had gone to
 RJT> zeros (not to be renumbered),  I didn't take notice of it until I
 RJT> was looking at a list of areas in TimED and noticed that one of
 RJT> them had gone to a 5-digit number.   

5-digit, into the 20,000 range, work fine.  I am trying to find out if it
will work when the message number is over 32,768.  :-)

 RJT> FWIW,  I run all Squish bases here,  I don't know if that'd be any
 RJT> different for *.msg.

I could not find a "renumber" parameter for *.msg bases in
Squish, just for the Squish bases.

Mike Bourne

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