On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 18:43 -0400, Internaut at Large wrote: > Greetings, > > On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 11:39 -0400, Damon Allen wrote: > > In Windows, Outlook is limited to a maximum of 2 GB for email storage > > before problems start occurring. This is due to a preemptive limit in > > Outlook based on a Windows problem with dealing with large files. My > > first question is in Linux is there a problem with large files which > > would cause the OS to become unstable? Secondly does Evolution have a > > limit of email file size based on this OS limit? > > Interestingly enough, I just ran into this problem. Not on the > Evolution side of things, but on the IMAP side of things. Apparently my > linux server that serves my imap won't handle a mail file that is in > excess of, approximately 200 gig. (a little over 30,000 mail messages, > some with lots of attachments) when on that system, trying to open the > file gives me the error message "cannot handle a file that large of that > type" with anything. So I basically poured it through formail and > procmail to filter it to smaller boxes, so it can handle it. > > Unfortunately, evolution doesn't deal with MH or maildir files very > well, so that wasn't really an option, it had to be a large spool file.
I don't understand. What has Evo got to do with the file format on the IMAP server? You might want to consider a file-per-message server such as Cyrus, Courier or Dovecot. File-per-folder systems are not scaleable. Every time you delete and expunge a message from the middle of your 200GB file, the server has to copy all 200 gigs. poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
