Yeah, I have seen this before with slovenly OE users.
What I have done is explain to them it's just a free email app and not
to expect much from it, if they want archiving within the app to
consider something more business level.
Most don't want to pay for email. So I explain to them that they should
save their emails outside OE. Usually ~My Docs\email\year? or whatever
Save them as eml files. Once they are saved purge and delete the
messages. In the meantime, you can try to goto options - tools -
maintenance tab and use that clean up button and compact...
BUT, know this... at 1GB and more the risk of corruption of OE increases
drastically... and if they *really* want these messages they better get
to saving and pruning ASAP, or get a heavy duty email client.
BTW, The Bat! is 40 USD and kicks ass for storage, I only quit using it
because they want to charge for every new version.
HTH!
On 3/7/2012 11:40 AM, Thane Sherrington wrote:
I have a client complaining about his Outlook Express being slow. He has
two identities - one with a total of 251MB of mail (in about 15
mailboxes) and the other 1.2GB of mail (in about 35 mailboxes). I'm
assuming this is slowing his machine down. Is there a best practice for
this?
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Regards,
joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key...
"...now these points of data make a beautiful line..."
