Comment 2 for bug 1332908

thanks for the prompt response... I use vm as the imap client for gmail.
 was that the question?

On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Uday Reddy <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Yes, 5000 messages is about the limit of what VM can reasonably handle.
>
> Can you remind me how you manage your vm/gmail setup?
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> Title:
> limit vm to last 5000 messages in imap folder?
>
> Status in VM (View Mail) for Emacs:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> hi Uday, hope you are having a relaxed and productive summer... with
> 23,000 messages in my gmail inbox, I find that emacs/ vm are having
> serious difficulties coping(*). I was wondering if would be possible
> to ask vm to only download/ manage the most recent 5000 messages or
> so? cheers, Eli
>
>
> (*) standard emacs distributions, several I tried, just crash. using
> advice from a few developers (Yamamoto/ Zaretskii), I increased the stack
> depth by a factor of two: newlim = (re_max_failures * ratio + 200000)*2;
> and now instead of crashing emacs just occasionally hangs up for up to a
> minute or two at a time when I try to use vm, so it's usable but not
> efficient nor fun. I delete my attachments every once in a while, so I
> think the issue is not a large mailbox but a large number of messages.
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