Re: bug with cvs and deleting large numbers of messages

y <at> mit.edu wrote:

> Current cvs fails with the (expected) rmm ``rmm: more than 998 message
> for rm exec'' error message when you try to expunge more than 998
> messages marked for deletion.  While I don't mind this safety check, we
> should arguably handle it some way better than an *mh-temp* buffer with
> the rmm error, we might want to detect and prompt/work around this issue
> ourselves, and we should make sure that the sequences are handled
> correctly (in my case, the messages were removed from the buffer as if
> deleted, but returned when I repacked the folder (because they hadn't
> actually been deleted, of course).

  Agreed. Can you please submit a bug report at:

    https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=13357&atid=113357

  so we're sure to address this? Thanks!

  p.s. Good to hear from you!

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