Hello Roy!
Tuesday March 03 1998 19:50, Roy J. Tellason wrote to John Aldrich:
 RJT> I don't think that's a good way to set squish bases...
ehh...it was just an example... :)
 RJT> If you only worry about how many messages there are,  then you'll have
 RJT> to get a feel for each and every message base on the machine in 
uestion
 RJT> to figure out what reasonable values would be for them.  250 is _not_ a
 RJT> lot and I have a number of busy echos here that exceed that greatly.
Yeah...like I said, it's just an example...
 RJT> The main problem with it is that if you set a squish base according to
 RJT> how many messages to keep,  it slows down tossing,  as it needs to
 RJT> delete as it's going along.
 RJT> I far prefer to set a number (real high,  though,  so you won't likely
 RJT> reach it -- like 2500 or whatever) for a maximum limit,  and then set
 RJT> the base to keep a specified number of days.  This allows the mail to
 RJT> get tossed quicker and you need to run sqpack every so often,  but I
 RJT> like that approach better.
True...but you still need to SQSET if you've change the number of messages 
you keep in your MSGAREA.CTL... :)
        John
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