that's the way post.office works and it's rather convenient at times. Having each email as a separate file allows the admin to provide more help than simply deleting everything as in the case of one file.
Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Len Conrad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 8:46 AM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Duplicate E-mail Messages in Client SOftware > > >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/ > 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/
