Limit to mailbox size?

[Stephen Treger]

Discussions aside about filtering and deleting mail, we had an
administrator that managed to get her inbox up to 1.9GB in size on a NT
system.

Eudora crashed and dumped all recent mail. Is there a 2GB file size limit
for Eudora or NT?

[Daniel Jacobson]

In article <Xns91209176F269D...@130.191.3.6>, CUT_s...@techie.com_CUT says...

Eudora loads the In, Out, and Trash mailboxes into memory upon start-up.
If any of these mailboxes gets too large for the amount of RAM you have
on your computer, Eudora *can* have memory management problems and
unpredictable results may occur.

Overall, how big are your IN, OUT, and TRASH mailboxes getting?
It may be time to move some of those messages to other
folders/mailboxes or clean house a little. Eudora loads those mailboxes
in RAM when it is up and running. You may have just found your limit.

In other words, do not use your IN, OUT and TRASH mailboxes as permanent
holding areas. Transfer them to other mailboxes if you are keeping them.

Try:
Eudora Resources/Memory Issues
http://www.eudora.com/techsupport/kb/1505hq.html
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Over and Out
Daniel Jacobson

[Katrina Knight]

There is no specific size limit in Euodra, but the inbox, outbox and trash
are kept in memory all the time, so letting them get big is not
recommended and can be a serious problem. I'm surprised she managed to get
itthat big without having serious problems long ago. If she doesn't want
to automatically filter mail into mailboxes by categories, I suggest
setting up another mailbox for incming mail and filtering all mail into it
as it comes in. Even in a different mailbox, I'd suggest staying noricably
smaller than 1.9 GB. Mailboxes tend to get unwieldy when they get large
and searching for a specific messages can be very time-consuming. I find
that mailboxes start getting sluggish for me at around 15MB. I can't
imagine letting a mailbox get to 1.9 GB. That's either a really massive
number of messages or a lot of really large messages or she never compacts
the mailbox and it was all wasted space.

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Katrina

[Stephen Treger]

Katrina Knight <kkn...@epix.net> wrote in
news:q_Sp7.7077$KD2.3...@news1.epix.net:

I started to try and recreate this by concatenating a couple of [large]
mailboxes and then doubling it. I gave up when I got to 1.2Gb. Eudora was
still loading and running fine. It wasn't the IN/OUT/TRASH mailbox though.
It was too much effort to try and build a 2gb mailbox <grin>

Administrators! what can you do, you can't leave them in the copy room
alone either.