Re: rmail can't delete message 10000 and later

[Ulrich Windl]

Richard,

actually the work-around was to quit rmail after having marked 9999 messages 
for 
deletion, and then restart it to mark the rest of the messages. To answer your 
question, I'll have to wait until there are another 10000 messages.

Regards,
Ulrich

On 31 Jul 2007 at 16:22, Richard Stallman wrote:

> Does this patch fix it?
> 
> *** rmailsum.el       25 Jul 2007 11:49:20 -0400      1.144.2.2
> --- rmailsum.el       31 Jul 2007 14:23:05 -0400      
> ***************
> *** 288,296 ****
>                   (if (zerop (% rmail-new-summary-line-count 10))
>                       (message "Computing summary lines...%d"
>                                rmail-new-summary-line-count))
> !                 (rmail-make-summary-line-1 msg)))))
>       ;; Fix up the part of the summary that says "deleted" or "unseen".
> !     (aset line 5
>         (if (rmail-message-deleted-p msg) ?\D
>           (if (= ?0 (char-after (+ 3 (rmail-msgbeg msg))))
>               ?\- ?\ )))
> --- 288,298 ----
>                   (if (zerop (% rmail-new-summary-line-count 10))
>                       (message "Computing summary lines...%d"
>                                rmail-new-summary-line-count))
> !                 (rmail-make-summary-line-1 msg))))
> !     delpos)
>       ;; Fix up the part of the summary that says "deleted" or "unseen".
> !     (string-match "[0-9]+" line)
> !     (aset line (match-end 0)
>         (if (rmail-message-deleted-p msg) ?\D
>           (if (= ?0 (char-after (+ 3 (rmail-msgbeg msg))))
>               ?\- ?\ )))