[X4U] Mail.app capacities

[Daly Jessup]

At 10:17 PM -0800 4/18/07, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>I'm currently running on 10.3.9, though I'm not sure how much of an 
>effect that will have on this.  Just how capable of handling mail is 
>Mail.app?  I use Eudora Pro for my day to day email.  However I have 
>a couple of administrative accounts that I use Mail.app to keep an 
>eye on.  With only 12,596 messages in the one box, and 2727 in the 
>other it is practically paralyzed.  It simply doesn't seem to be 
>able to handle the load.  It takes a minute or more to load the 
>larger box, and it will pop up the spinning beach ball when I click 
>on some of the messages.  This is on a G5 2x2 with 3.5GB RAM, so 
>it's not some puny machine.

Here's some discussion about that at the Apple forums. Looks like the 
limit may be 1 GB for a mailbox, depending on how many attachments 
you have.
<http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4400627>

It appears that the limit for Eudora is 32000 messages per mailbox.

Daly
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