[X4U] E-Mail programs (Was: Users' judgments of the glossy screen?)

[Ed Gould]

On Feb 28, 2008, at 6:38 AM, Daly Jessup wrote:

> Ed Gould wrote:
>
>> Just a thought here. When I ran OE the DB was around 25G and it  
>> took a good 15 minutes to back it up and that meant OE could not  
>> be updating the DB while the back up was running. At least with  
>> individual messages this shouldn't(?) be an issue.
>>
>> BTW I threw out EUDORA as it crashed my *ENTIRE* system 4-5 times  
>> a day (on OS 9). At least with Apple mail when it does crash it  
>> does so seldomly enough that I can live with it. All my  
>> experiences before MAC were OS2 and the only app that crashed were  
>> windows based apps no OS/2 app ever crashed.
>
> Amazing! I've been using Eudora for over a decade and it has never  
> crashed. Ever. I've used it on probably 12 different computers.  
> There was something wrong with your setup, that's for sure.  I must  
> say, a 25 GB mail folder for OE sounds pretty extreme. I didn't  
> know hard drives were even that big in the days of OE!
>
> Daly
> -SNIP------------

Daly,

According to someone else on here the limit was 25M. The drive I had  
it installed on was 200G (that is what came with the my MAC) so I am  
sure that it was reasonably common.

Ed