Re: [Evolution] Evolution maximum email file size

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 11:39 -0400, Damon Allen wrote:
> In Windows, Outlook is limited to a maximum of 2 GB for email storage 
> before problems start occurring.  This is due to a preemptive limit in 
> Outlook based on a Windows problem with dealing with large files.  My 
> first question is in Linux is there a problem with large files which 
> would cause the OS to become unstable?  Secondly does Evolution have a 
> limit of email file size based on this OS limit?

Having just been through this recently ....

The 2Gb file size is actually an MS-SQL limit: it can't cope with blobs
bigger than 2Gb.  So if you try to store any entity in an MS-SQL
database bigger than 2Gb it crashes'n'burns.  Exchange stores things in
an MS-SQL database, hence the limit of 2Gb - the actual limit is on
single email messages, but you never know how Outlook might view this
when connecting to an imap server and the developers might just put a
blanket 2Gb limit on things.

P.