> Scott Haneda wrote:
>>> Sorry not to have specific help for solving this problem, but I would
>>> strongly recommend moving him to IMAP, if he isn't already on it.  It
>>> won't help for the other items in the database but at least he'll
>>> always know he has a live backup of his email.
>>>     
>> 
>> I honestly can not imagine how painful IMAP at 4GB would be.  As much as I
>> like IMAP, its hard to get users trained on how to use it, how to keep some
>> offline and some online email etc.
>>   
> My experience with the truly huge databases is that they are mostly that
> big because of enormous attachments. Just getting them to not use the
> email database as a file system would go a long way towards keeping away
> from this limit.

Yeah, agreed, though it is always inbound.  Not uncommon for me to see 10MB
of "drunk weekend" photos pass through the girlfriends inbox.  52 weekends
in a year, yeah, it ads up :-)

Ill tell you what would be nice, "store attachments offline" or something in
Entourage, Claris Emailer did this.  I rigged it with rules and AppleScript
I think, but there is no direct link to the file, which is a bummer.
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Scott Haneda                                Tel: 415.898.2602
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