Re: nnml corruption in move to emacs 21?

[Reiner Steib]

On Sat, Mar 19 2005, Todd H. wrote:

> Now, I have a hugemongous nnml directory for spam thats over 30,000
> messages since I rarely bother to go in there unless I'm hunting for
> something specific.
>
> I've just noticed that when I moved my home directory to this new
> machine, though, something appears to have gotten corrupted in that
> subdirectory so when I access this nnml group, only the messages since
> the switchover are viewable.
>
> The older messages show up in the message window are garbled, almost
> like I'm looking at something uuencoded or compressed.  And, if I look
> at the actual files on the disk now, they look similarly garbled, so
> it's not just a display issue. 

I think it's not a Gnus issue then.

> So, am I chasing down a file corruption issue, or did something change
> in Gnus perhaps that might have modified nnml message store, or is
> there a known issue when nnml message counts get over a certain
> threshhold, or ??? 

I'd expect problems if the count exceeds the largest Lisp integer.

,----[ C-h v most-positive-fixnum RET ]
| most-positive-fixnum's value is 268435455
| 
| The largest value that is representable in a Lisp integer.
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