Christopher Mahmood wrote:
* Oskar Teran (pheonix1t@houston.rr.com) [030430 16:28]:
What is the max. file size for an .mbx file?
The maximum file size, see: http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html but the mail clients don't nec. have large file support.
So....what is the max or a safe max file size to let a .mbx file get to?
Eventually the mail client will choke on it and crash but we've had users here reading 1G mboxes with netscape. It's not so much what's safe as what is practical--a 1G mbox over NFS would pretty painful.
And more importantly, what is the wise or recommended thing to do once it reaches that size? I recall seeing someone post something about dbmail.org.
If you convert them to maildirs then the size really isn't any issue anymore since each message is seperate file.
OK...so the quick solution is to use maildir instead of .mbx....ok.....since uw-imap was setup....maildir is cyrus or courier right? so i'll have to move it over from uw-imap to courier or cyrus. My next question ..... does anyone know if maildir format is supported by outlook? I've tried connecting to a maildir mailbox with outlook and had no luck. just sees imap or pop3. this was with outlook 2000 or 2002. I didn't look too much into the outlook maildir issues....but if anyone has already seen this and has links or experiences to share that would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Oskar