Hi Wayne, On or about Monday, January 20, 2003 at 10:47:43GMT -0800 (which was 1:47 PM in the tropics where I live) Wayne Black inquired:
S>> My MAIL folder presently stands at 9.56 GB (10,269,755,860 bytes) S>> TB! still runs like clockwork, although the exit mailbox S>> compression can take ten minutes or more ;-) WB> Is there a way to disable the "exit mailbox compression"? I'd be interested in an answer to this too! There is a checkbox for this in each account, and each message folder under the account (when you create it. I have the checkboxes all cleared, but still get it happening when I exit, unless I am shutting down WIN2K, in which case the O/S seems to truncate the operation. The next time I open TB! after a shutdown or reboot, it takes a while to re-index the message folders, as it seems to have been corrupted. The operation has not failed to correct it once (YET) but I fear there may be repurcussions if the process gets interrupted at a critical juncture some future time :-( WB> I use the Compress All Mailbox function on a fairly regular WB> basis. And by the way, how many messages does 9.56 GB WB> represent? At present it is about 138,000 +/-, with massive amounts of attachments. I don't store attachments in a separate folder due to the inherent inability of certain mentally deficient people to use unique filenames ;-( . What are the rules TB! uses in the case where you have 240 messages, each with 01.jpg, 02.jpg, 03.jpg all in the same mail storage folder? I know that in the case of newsgroups, AGENT uses an "auto-increment" feature (optional). I've been unable to find a reference to this. WB> I believe the last I remember, Marck had somewhere around WB> 280,000 messages. I don't think there are *any* email WB> clients that can handle this kind of volume. Oh, I think if the database & indexing system is properly designed (as it does seem to be!) there should be no practical limit to this capability. Hats off to the designers for having such a properly designed system! -- Warmest tropical wishes, Spike "Be safety conscious. 80% of people are caused by accidents!" -------------------------------------------------- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign - Against HTML Mail \ / If it aint a webpage it shouldn't be HTML. X Say NO! to bloatmail - ban HTML mail! / \ Ask Spikey, he hates everything (HTML). -------------------------------------------------- Flying in the stratosphere with The Bat! V1.61 on Windows 2000 Vers. 5 0 Build 2195 Service Pack 3 -------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
