[mew-int 00487] Re: inbox messages numbered > 9999 are ignored

[David A. Panariti]

Hi,

I just debugged a similar problem.  For me, using <i> in summay mode
would not show new messages, but <s><all> would.  I traced it down to
my inc program.  It used a 4 digit wide message number and numbers > 4
digits had a <?> in the MS digit position indicating overflow.  mewls
seems to ignore numbers like ?002. I changed the format file for inc
to use %5(msg) in place of the %4(msg) in the default format string.
Since nmh keeps its default format in the inc binary itself, I used
strings to extract it, changed the 4 to a 5 and then pointed to the
new format file in my .mh_profile.
Hope this helps,

davep

>>>>> "David" == David S Miller <davem at example.com> writes:

David> I am using Mew 2.0, after being away for the previous 9 days I
David> came back to approximately 40,000 new emails.

David> This is not abnormal for me :-)

David> Unfortunately, only inbox entries up to "9999" will appear in
David> Mew.  I see right now that "inc" has processed my mailbox and
David> created all the inbox files under ~/Mail/inbox/ but Summary
David> mode does not show any of the ones numbered >= 10000 at all.

David> I have no way currently to even read any response one makes to
David> this bug report... except to keep an eye on the mew-int
David> archives on the www.mew.org website.

David> Later, David S. Miller davem at example.com