Question re Mail and size limits of accounts

[PeterB]

Do local folders in Mail count toward the total size limit (2GB ) of accounts in Mail? (As detailed here: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25812) Anybody know?

I'm thinking to take my largest sent mail messages and sort them into a new folder, but am not sure that this will help as regards the size limit... of course it would help organizationally, but I might not bother if it will have no influence on the size issue.

[Jimmypoo]

I think it does ... so just set your "remove from server" accordingly.

Last night, after having removed 500 emails a few days prior, for some reason, it popped EVERYTHING, and I know have 900 to remove as of now.

I had to do a hard restart - and that is when it dumped everything to the HD from the mail server again.

[PeterB]

The link I gave, suggests that they DON'T count, as why would they be telling you to make local folders so as to avoid the 2GB issue? But on the other hand, they say that it's the TOTAL that cannot be over 2GB, which presumably includes all your accounts. (But most accounts also have a 2GB individual limit, so maybe that's what they're talking about?) ... my individual accounts are nowhere near 2GB. But my local folders, that's another matter-- looking on my hard drive, there's one set of folders which total about 1.4GB, and then when added to everything else, definitely goes over 2GB.

[Jimmypoo]

Is this independent of dot.Mac?

I thought, without reading, that when you mentioned the 2GB that it was specific to dot.mac

FWIW.... I found 900MB of lost mail via Netscape the other day. It simply won't acknowledge the profile.... and won't import it. Very frustrating.

It was old enough that I just let it all go.

This is one of the reasons I like webmail. It's a great storage bin.

I find it amusing that they don't know "how big is too big" - - if they don't know, how are we supposed to know???


With that said.... I do, typically, create folders for "such things as "PeterB email" and "CJ's email" (JUST EXAMPLES folks!!!) - and move them out of the main accounts.

With some people, I tend to use email like a chat app - and have it POP every 2 minutes, and reply away. There can be a dozen emails in 5 minutes!

I have to stop doing that too.....

[PeterB]

jimmy, this is an issue with Apple's Mail.app in Panther and Tiger, NOT .mac mail (might be an issue with that too, but the article I linked to is not talking about .mac.) Why they have the 2GB limit, I don't know-- maybe it is related to a limitation on file sizes in X.