For me personally, the only thing that seems to matter is the size of the Inbox. I have a fairly large mailbox (~750MB) with many folders and sub folders, but I keep my Inbox pretty clean (usually around 100 messages). When opening Outlook over a slow VPN connection is still opens fairly quickly.
Chuck -----Original Message----- From: Mike Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 12:19 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: When is a mailbox officially "too big"? Okay, that's the answer I was hoping to hear. NOW, does the aggregate size of the mailbox, have anything to do with the actual speed in which it takes to "paint" the initial screen, when Outlook is fired up over a slow VPN connection? You know what I mean... after the splash screen, it draws the window, then the folder list along the left side of the screen, then the messages on the right, etc... I know that the actual number of messages in their Inbox (which is the root folder, and first to get displayed by default) can play a factor - but I don't know much about the entire tree structure, actual store size, etc. I would think it's only an issue, when they want to browse their folder structure, otherwise, it just shows the end user what they need to see for that moment. Any more thoughts on this topic? Thanks, Mike -----Original Message----- From: Durkee, Peter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 12:27 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: When is a mailbox officially "too big"? I have to admit that I have some people with mailboxes that are over twice as big as yours, and Exchange/Outlook handles them quite well as long as all the data is in Exchange. The problems that come up are all OST and PST related. -Peter -----Original Message----- From: David, Andy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, 26 February, 2004 10:03 To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: When is a mailbox officially "too big"? What is your company policy on mailbox sizes? -----Original Message----- From: Mike Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 11:31 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: When is a mailbox officially "too big"? Hello, Our 2 principles in our company, now have mailboxes that are over 2 Gigs in size EACH. Is it irresponsible of me, to let this go on? I mean, the likelihood of a crash, and dealing with these singularly gargantuan mail files - should I maybe create different (or additional) message stores, rather than folders - in order to categorize their e-mail? Then just give them access to the stores, so they all appear inside their Outlook - which will allow them to grow larger separately (using rules, etc. to stick particular types of e-mails into the proper folders). OR is this not a big deal, because Exchange handles the mail store so well (knock on wood). I would love to hear your input regarding the topic. 2 Gigs seems excessive - AND another thing I can no longer run is EXMERGE - because you can't break the 2 Gig .PST barrier. That's another thing I always liked doing, for nice clean archives - is running EXMERGE and generating individual .PST files for each of our users mailboxes. It's cool, because if a user ever wanted to get up and running IMMEDIATELY (after a crash), I could simply copy their latest .PST file to their local machine, and they can at least get most of their mail, while I am busy restoring the server. Thanks for your input, Mike _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode =&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. 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