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? >
Having just been through this recently .... The 2Gb file size is actually an MS-SQL limit: it can't cope with blobs bigger than 2Gb. So if you try to store any entity in an MS-SQL database bigger than 2Gb it crashes'n'burns. Exchange stores things in an MS-SQL database, hence the limit of 2Gb - the actual limit is on single email messages, but you never know how Outlook might view this when connecting to an imap server and the developers might just put a blanket 2Gb limit on things. P. _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
