>very poor at keeping their outlook.pst files tidy and manageable and some >are 100Mb+
Huge .mbx files, 100 mbytes will suffice, are suspected in other situations, like sending iwebmsg into fits. If you're saying your problems stopped when you reduced the .mbx files to empty or small, the case against huge mbx files is getting stronger. Maybe it's time for Ipswitch to switch from single .mbx file to something like maildir, where each message is a separate file. This reduces locking collisions betweeen smtp, smtpd, pop, iwebmsg since the locking is per msg(file) rather than per-file-with-all-the-messages. And maybe it would remove a lot of the instabilities that the imail processes have in trying to handle huge mailbox files. Len www.menandmice.com/DNS-training : DNS Training BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND for NT4 & W2K IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
