Thanks for your nice Reply, which I guess tells me about as much as I need
to know for now.
Firstly, the 500Gb should be 50Gb which is a huge difference! To most people
this is a large amount of data. To Outlook98 it is quite impossible. In my
experience Outlook gives up at between .5 and 1 Gb. At 700Mb Outlook just
give it away and permanently corrupted the PST file. Thank god it was not my
primary contact manager!
As for MS Exchange... Words fail me.
What I do is write code - mostly n tiered distributed Database apps with
reasonably large database. I have found over the years that the most
successful engine for storing and accessing data is Interbase - and for the
really big stuff Oracle. It means my Email Data (Contacts, Messages etc) is
available for any other Application I care to write. This ease of data
access has a lot of appeal, and you would have to be fairly one eyed not to
agree with me. I don't care how good your proprietary database is, it simply
can not even begin to compare with the stuff built specifically for storing
database by companies like O and Borland. The robustness of these storage
engines is beyond question.
Now I have a customer who over the next 10 years will certainly accumulate
this size mail box. He wants reliability, Data Integrity, Ease of data
access, and the ability to use the Data in other custom built apps. The mail
is just part of the App I am building, and I was hoping I could use
something already built. Too bad.
Anyway, I take on what you have said, and will re evaluate my position.
Once again thanks for the well formed responses.
TonyB
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Thomas Fernandez
Sent: Thursday, 4 January 2001 4:39 p.m.
To: Tony Blomfield on TBUDL
Subject: Re: Newbie Question
Hi Tony,
On Thu, 4 Jan 2001 09:45:32 -0800GMT (05/01/2001, 01:45 +0800GMT),
Tony Blomfield wrote:
TB> I do not require fancy features. I just want to send and receive Email,
and
TB> store up to 500Gb of Email safely on anther machine in an SQL database.
An
TB> integrated Spell Checker in English would be a nice extra.
You have received a professional technical reply from Marck. I'm just
starting with SQL, so wouldn't remark myself.
However, with a mail base of 500GB (if that is not a typo) you will
have two options:
1.) contact RITlabs directly, so they write a proprietary option for
you to store the messages in whatever format you like
2.) write something which is perfectly to your needs.
If you work in Windows, option 1 should be your choice.
If you are in the *nix world, you could look around there but the
MUA's will most likely use .mbx format for reasons of efficiency that
Marck has outlined. So, in the *nix world, option 2 (reinventing the
wheel) might be your choice.
TB> Can someone answer the question IS IT POSSIBLE FOR BAT TO USE INTERBASE?
Just out of curiosity: what do you do? I mean, are you a mail service
provider, mail storage provider, or how does your message base to
500GB? Does this figure include attachments?
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Cheers,
Thomas.
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