On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 22:38, Thorne Lawler wrote: > Clint, > > My own commercial experience with Outlook supports Sam's theory. I disagree > with his implicit assertion though: I *insist* that my email software cope > with 18,000 messages in a folder, or even (double-checks) 160,000. You'll > notice that I'm sending this message with Outlook, but that's because I'm at > work, where Outlook is semi-compulsory. >
Well, the only way we found around this problem was to move almost all of the messages out into other folders using a perl script. New messages suddenly reappeared in the Outlook users' Inbox. I'm not sure what Outlook's problem was. It was showing a count of 18,300 messages in the inbox (the exact number shown when I tried the IMAP commands somebody else posted), but it wasn't actually *showing* any past the date in which somebody dragged and dropped about 17000 emails into the Inbox. I have now instituted some procmail rules to automatically sort the messages in a logical way. The users are happy, and so is Outlook. I have instructed them to *never* drag and drop more than 1000 messages at a time. I suspect that suggestion will be forgotten the next time this comes up. Thanks for all of the suggestions people. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Robotic Monkeys at ThinkGeek For a limited time only, get FREE Ground shipping on all orders of $35 or more. Hurry up and shop folks, this offer expires April 30th! http://www.thinkgeek.com/freeshipping/?cpg=12297 _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
