Re: Reading from a maildir

Wolfgang Schnerring <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Are the article ids random?  slrn assumes them to be sequential.
>
> They look like they're increasing (i.e. newer messages always get
> higher numbers), but not every number is present. Might that be the
> issue?

Yes.  How big are the gaps?  slrn is not optimized for the presence of
large gaps in a spool directory.  When it appears to hang, use
something like strace to trace the system calls it is making.  My
guess is that it is trying to open the non-existent files in the gaps.

Thanks,
--John


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