[Tutor] Matching problem....

[Deirdre Saoirse]

On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Patrick Phalen wrote:

> [Deirdre Saoirse, on Thu, 07 Oct 1999]:
> 
> :: I guess this is a question I was wondering about (and didn't explicitly
> :: state): is it reasonable to assume that a mailbox (or even that a whole
> :: message) for a pop session will fit in RAM?
> 
> Several weeks ago, on one of the servers I do work on, I encountered a
> miadmin (Illustra) mailbox which had grown to 110 MB. :)

Yeeep!

Well, I'm going to stick (temporarily) with the icky but workable solution
of spawning a grep process. I can read in chunks of the file when I need
to send it.

110 MB would take a LONG time at 56k....

Anyhow, I'm having a lot of fun today. :)

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