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Message   Andrew Leary    Vince Coen   Filefind file limit   October 24, 2017
 11:50 PM *  

Hello Vince!

24 Oct 17 21:43, you wrote to all:

 VC> Found it and it in mbfido/filefind.c

 VC> There are four settings :

 VC> ----
 VC> /*
 VC>  *  The next constants are to prevent overflowing the echomail areas
 VC>  *  with huge replies. MAX_DESC_LINES limits the number of file
 VC> description *  lines, 5 should be enough. The other two are the
 VC> maximum files to report *  if in the same area or different area. *
 VC> For netmail replies there is a different limit. */ #define
 VC> MAX_DESC_LINES          5 #define MAX_FILES_SAMEBOARD     25 #define
 VC> MAX_FILES_OTHERBOARD    50 #define MAX_FILES_NETMAIL       100
 VC> ----

 VC> Andrew is there any way we can change these as a param for configure
 VC> or better still within the system set up params ?

We can probably do something about that without too much trouble.  As with 
anything, sysops will need to use common sense in setting limits to prevent 
gigantic echomail messages.

In the future, I can look at possibly splitting large replies into multiple 
messages.

Andrew

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