One of the references provided in this newsgroup was to a
paper by Tom Koch. In that paper he suggested keeping the
inbox, outbox, and sent folders to less than 1000 messages,
to avoid a variety of problems. Does it follow logically,
or otherwise, that it is a good idea to limit ALL email
folders to less than 1000 messages, to avoid the same
problems?

Thanks.

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torches or even in the dark with their hands out in front
of them. We need those explorers and weirdos. I am
so grateful when I find that I am not the first." - Sally
Amsbury.

Buenos días: *CWLee* escribió:

> One of the references provided in this newsgroup was to a
> paper by Tom Koch. In that paper he suggested keeping the
> inbox, outbox, and sent folders to less than 1000 messages,
> to avoid a variety of problems. Does it follow logically,
> or otherwise, that it is a good idea to limit ALL email
> folders to less than 1000 messages, to avoid the same
> problems?

Not necessarily. Inbox, Outbox and Sent Items are special folders in
that way, that they pretty often get new messages, messages moved and
deleted. Everytime such a thing happens, there is a chance of
corrupting the data file. Otherwise, with folders that mostly are
used for storing and reading messages, it is not that likely.

However, if you don't mind the effort, it certainly won't be to your
disadvantage. As is a regular backup and compaction of all folders. ;-)

Saludos
Roland
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"CWLee" <cdubyalee@post.harvard.edu> wrote in message
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> One of the references provided in this newsgroup was to a
> paper by Tom Koch. In that paper he suggested keeping the
> inbox, outbox, and sent folders to less than 1000 messages,
> to avoid a variety of problems. Does it follow logically,
> or otherwise, that it is a good idea to limit ALL email
> folders to less than 1000 messages, to avoid the same
> problems?
>
> Thanks.

As Roland suggested, it's not a bad idea, partly because if you create your
own folders with some kind of logic behind which folders you put messages in
then it makes it a lot easier to find a particular message when you need to.
Also, the larger a folder is the slower it is to load and the more apt to be
corrupted.

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Its not so much the number of messages, but the size of the file.

Some idiot emailed me a 9 meg email the other day. If I had 1000 9 meg
emails, then that would overdose OE.

Its best to keep the files under a couple hundred megabytes and keep
backups.


steve

"CWLee" <cdubyalee@post.harvard.edu> wrote in message
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>
> One of the references provided in this newsgroup was to a
> paper by Tom Koch. In that paper he suggested keeping the
> inbox, outbox, and sent folders to less than 1000 messages,
> to avoid a variety of problems. Does it follow logically,
> or otherwise, that it is a good idea to limit ALL email
> folders to less than 1000 messages, to avoid the same
> problems?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> ----------
> CWLee
> "I appreciate those who walk out from the edges with
> torches or even in the dark with their hands out in front
> of them. We need those explorers and weirdos. I am
> so grateful when I find that I am not the first." - Sally
> Amsbury.
>

"CWLee" <cdubyalee@post.harvard.edu> wrote in message
news:uWU$qJVAGHA.204@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl
> One of the references provided in this newsgroup was to a
> paper by Tom Koch. In that paper he suggested keeping the
> inbox, outbox, and sent folders to less than 1000 messages,
> to avoid a variety of problems. Does it follow logically,
> or otherwise, that it is a good idea to limit ALL email
> folders to less than 1000 messages, to avoid the same
> problems?
>
> Thanks.

What Roland, Frank and Steve said. :-)

--
Tom Koch, MVP for IE/Outlook Express
http://www.insideoutlookexpress.com
or http://www.insideoe.com
Awareness is free.

General OE Caveats:

- Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to local
folders created for this purpose.

- Empty Deleted Items folder daily.

- Disable Background Compacting [N/A in SP2] and frequently perform a manual
compact of all OE folders while "working offline". More at
http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm.

- Do not attempt to close OE via Task Manager or shutdown your machine if
Automatic Compacting is taking place (WinXP SP2 only).

- Your anti-virus application's email scanning feature can also cause
corruption. Disable it. It provides no additional protection.
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-Windows (IE/OE, Shell/User, Security), Aumha.org VSOP, DTS-L.org

CWLee wrote:
> One of the references provided in this newsgroup was to a
> paper by Tom Koch. In that paper he suggested keeping the
> inbox, outbox, and sent folders to less than 1000 messages,
> to avoid a variety of problems. Does it follow logically,
> or otherwise, that it is a good idea to limit ALL email
> folders to less than 1000 messages, to avoid the same
> problems?
>
> Thanks.