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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

  > Get rid of them.  The way total expiry in nnml works is that nnml
  > checks all the articles in the range.  Those old dormant/ticked
  > articles glue the lower endpoint of the range to a constant position,
  > while the upper endpoint keeps growing.

Another alternative is to, every once in a while, move all articles
from the group to the same group.  This will renumber the messages
such that they have consecutive numbers again.  Of course, the gap
will soon begin to grow again, so this must be repeated periodically.

I use auto-expire to prevent this, as Hrvoje suggested.

kai
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