[whgoodman]

I'm running Office 2004 on my PB1.6 with OS X 10.4.3 and have had problems with e-mail database corruption. Does anyone know the limitations on the max size or max number of e-mails that the Entourage e-mail database? I'm getting tired of rebuilding the database to find that I've lost another folder of important e-mail.

Thanks,

Walt

[Macola]

Your problem may not be the size so much as a message with malformed headers that Entourage chokes on. Have you had any errors while receiving mail?

Entourage v.X had a db size limit of 4 GB, while 2004 is up to 2 million items:

http://www.entourage.mvps.org/database/size.html

[whgoodman]

Thanks for the link. I looked all over their site, but couldn't find that info. I know that Exchange has issues with large e-mail boxes [i.e. over 2GB], but that's not the case as my mailbox is well under 1GB. Memory on my PB is 2GB so I'm not thinking that's a problem unless it tries to read all of the messages into memory prior to the search. The two times that it has occurred in the last month it starts reporting a corrupt database while I'm searching e-mail in the advanced search utility. I have not experienced any errors while receiving, sending or viewing e-mail. I'm using this for business so my mailbox is quite large, but well under 4GB and 2 million items. I'm pulling e-mail from our Exchange 2003 server so it is M$ talking to M$ so I'm hoping that the headers and structure would be handled at that level.

Is anyone familiar with the methodolgy behind how Entourage handles searches of the e-mail message body on large numbers [> 1000] e-mail messages? Does it try to load all of the messages into memory prior to the search, or does it search one message at a time?

Walt

[Macola]

Originally Posted by whgoodman

Thanks for the link. I looked all over their site, but couldn't find that info.

It's directly in that link. The title of the page is "Size Limits".

[whgoodman]

What can I say? I missed it. Thanks for the link.