Message count limits

[Brianm]

I've been using Pegasus since 1996-- don't ask me what version it was
back then, but it was the 16-bit. But fortunately each upgrade has
seamlessly upgraded all the emails in all the folders that I saved (to
their credit). Believe it or not, I have saved a good portion of my
emails in that entire time. I have many folders, some with hundreds, and
even a couple with 1000+, of messages. So my question is, does Pegasus
have any limits as far as the number of emails that can be kept in a
folder, or overall total? Do I need to worry that I may someday hit
some limit? I am currently at v4.52, but can upgrade if need be.

[Rui Sá]

On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:10:26 -0500, Brianm
<idontt...@spammersdie.com> wrote:

>I have many folders, some with hundreds, and
>even a couple with 1000+, of messages. So my question is, does Pegasus
>have any limits as far as the number of emails that can be kept in a
>folder, or overall total? Do I need to worry that I may someday hit
>some limit? I am currently at v4.52, but can upgrade if need be.

I have one folder with over 8000 messages, so you don't need to worry
until (at least) you reach that number...


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[Rui S�]

On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:10:26 -0500, Brianm
<idontt...@spammersdie.com> wrote:

>I have many folders, some with hundreds, and
>even a couple with 1000+, of messages. So my question is, does Pegasus
>have any limits as far as the number of emails that can be kept in a
>folder, or overall total? Do I need to worry that I may someday hit
>some limit? I am currently at v4.52, but can upgrade if need be.

I have one folder with over 8000 messages, so you don't need to worry

until (at least) you reach that size...

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[Evertjan.]

That would depend on the "real" size.

if those 8000 messages each have 10 Mb of jpgs,
things will become nasty indeed.

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[Rui S�]

On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:40:50 +0200, "Evertjan."
<exxjxw.h...@inter.nl.net> wrote:

>Rui S� wrote on 18 apr 2013 in comp.mail.pegasus-mail.ms-windows:
>
>> On Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:10:26 -0500, Brianm
>> <idontt...@spammersdie.com> wrote:
>>
>>>I have many folders, some with hundreds, and
>>>even a couple with 1000+, of messages. So my question is, does Pegasus
>>>have any limits as far as the number of emails that can be kept in a
>>>folder, or overall total? Do I need to worry that I may someday hit
>>>some limit? I am currently at v4.52, but can upgrade if need be.
>>
>> I have one folder with over 8000 messages, so you don't need to worry
>> until (at least) you reach that size...
>
>That would depend on the "real" size.
>
>if those 8000 messages each have 10 Mb of jpgs,
>things will become nasty indeed.

I remove most attachments (either delete or save and keep them
elsewhere) before archiving mails, so they're largely text-only.

This particular folder has about 160 MB and keeps 10+ years of mails
from my bank, so the average message size is ~20 KB.

And it's still quite usable! I feel it also depends a lot on your
hardware: RAM size and, to a lesser extent, if you have an SSD or the
HDD's speed/fragmentation.

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[Steve Hayes]

One thing I wanted to do was use AWK to remove unneeded headers from saved
mail, so I would save it to a database. I would like to keep just the To,
from, Date and Subject lines, and possibly key words.

But some mail nowadays is unreadable when saved.


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[Michael in der Wiesche]

There is certainly a size limit for the (folder) files storing emails:
Pegasus Mail cannot deal with folder files (extension PMM) larger than 2
GB.


Michael

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