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

[Ed Gould]

On Feb 29, 2008, at 6:14 AM, Daly Jessup wrote:

>>> On Feb 28, 2008, at 8:59 PM, Linda wrote:
>>> On 2/28/08 9:10 AM, Daly wrote:
>>>
>>>> I must say, a 25 GB mail folder for OE sounds pretty extreme.
>
>>> I'm on a couple of Microsoft and/or Entourage lists, have been  
>>> for years,
>>> and I've never, ever read of anyone having a 25GB database in  
>>> either Outlook
>>> Express or Entourage  -- other than Ed's "25G" reported here today.
>>>
>> Well maybe I am the weird one then. Most of my emails had pics  
>> attached and typically each email was several hunderd K (it did  
>> vvary though from 10K to 500K).
>
> Well, if they averaged 500k each, and if the data base really was  
> 25GB, that means you had saved about 50 billion messages.  That's a  
> lot of email.
>
> Daly
>


My calculations says 50 million. But in any case I did not have  
either. I did keep 1 years worth of email  and a copy of every  
message I sent.
That is still quite a bit short of 25G . I am unable to account for a  
25G database. Aftyer 5 years I did start archiving the messages though.

Ed