All of the below I agree with   So did the mail admin for us....not a really
powerful machine (not really sure of the specs) but it has lots of space on
it...Now my total mailbox siz for all mailboxes of mine are WAY less... I
believe it was an NT 4 SP6a server....

Eric S

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Frolick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 4:52 PM
Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Maximum mailbox size


> What sort of machine was it running on, and what type of mail load.  I
> know you are aware that that was a 1.2GB text file that under almost all
> operations in Imail gets rebuilt by the worst possible process of
> copying the file to a new file and leaving out or adding the changes
> (i.e. you need at the very least 1.2GB of free sapce to manage your
> email). A 100MB mailbox is very cumbersome to work with on a busy
> server. I won't even get into the fragmentation and unneccissary file
> I/O issues involved with a mailbox that big.
>
> Thanks,
> Chuck Frolick
> ArgoNet, Inc.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of E. Shanbrom
> (Ipswitch)
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 3:26 PM
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> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Maximum mailbox size
>
>
> I had one that was approx 1.2GB with no ill effects except web messaging
> was
> really slow with it (expected)
>
> Eric S
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "William Lefkovics" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 3:08 PM
> Subject: [IMail Forum] Maximum mailbox size
>
>
> > Is there a practical or theoretical limit to mailbox size in IMail
> 8.02
> from
> > the software perspective?
> >
> > William
> >
> >
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