On Mon, 22 Feb 2010, Brian Mathis wrote:
Seems that most replies have missed this piece of information from the original message: Methods that would produce a PST file of the GMail mailboxes would also be heartily welcomed, as it would appear Ops would like to keep the old mail off of the Exchange storage group and on the local user's machine.It's always a good idea to know you're requirements, but in this case the disk on the Exchange server is not an issue.
This will mean that everyone's mail archives will be on their local system. those will need to be backed up or they will be lost when something happens to that drive/machine (some mail since the last backup will probably be lost anyway). There are also various things that can corrupt a pst file (remember that adding to it involves re-writing the entire thing, and there are, or at least have been, file size limits beyond which it becomes unreadable)
In my experiance you also end up with people running out of space on their local machines, and therefor moving the .pst files onto external USB drives of various kinds, which then get missed from backups, move around (including outside the company)
This sounds like a series of problems waiting to happen. How did they justify this decrease in reliability?
I'm not a huge gmail fan (I wouldn't trust it with my mail), but it sounds significantly better than what's being proposed.
David Lang
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