On Sun, 2004-12-19 at 05:03 -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 15:27 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > On Saturday 18 December 2004 1:50 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > > > However, disks are measured in 10s of GBs. If your mbox file is > > > > getting so big as to fill up /home, you have a problem. After all, > > > > even Outlook has File->Archive... functionality, so that the .PST > > > > file won't get so huge. > > > > > > I think this has more to do with the fact OE and Outlook are incredably > > > slow on mailboxes larger than a megabyte and tends to hang entirely on > > > any mailbox over 4MB. Or individual messages larger than a few hundred > > > kB. > > > > That's just pure hogwash. > > No. As with anything Microsoft, Outlook behaviour depends extremely heavy > on just *which* Outlook you're using, and *which* version of it (plus what > security patches you have applied). And there's Outlook Express as well, > which is an entirely different beast (with entirely different bugs). > > Outlook is a nightmare to support server-side, unless you can force your > users to a single particular version of it. Go re-read the 2 posts. I did *not* say that Outlook works per- fectly, all the time, everywhere, every version. How could you even think that I did? Paul Johnson made a foolish, reflexively anti-MSFT blanket state- ment, and I presented contrary evidence (which you conveniently snipped in your reply). That's all. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "Vanity, my favorite sin." Larry/John/Satan, "The Devil's Advocate"
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