> There is also the $$$ of having to maintain Outlook's quaint and fragile > database. MS puts everything in one humongous file that needs to be > regularly verified and compressed. Hit a serious glitch and lose > absolutely everything.
I have over 50 GBs of active Outlook .pst files on my network, which serve as the archive for users' email. Mine's about 1 GB, going back to 2001 and I have users with 3 GB + Outlook archives. I've only had one corrupt on me in 7 years (a 3 GB one a few weeks ago which I recovered using the MS Shadow Copy service) and they never have any maintenance run on them. Ever. It's not the ideal solution, far from it, but it works and it's free beyond the cost of Outlook. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
