Fwd: Re: Stable Kontact client for Kolab3

[Geoff Nordli]

On 13-03-19 06:22 PM, Kolab Users wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We support a lot of MS Outlook clients (thousands) and from our 
> experience OST's should never exceed 2GB.
>
> What we've found is that when they do, they become prone to corruption 
> and need constant repair work. After this occurs, we recommend to our 
> clients to have multiple OST's between 1Gb to 2Gb.
>
> We almost never see an OST corruption when it's under 2Gb in size.
>
>
> On 20-Mar-13 11:34 AM, Geoff Nordli wrote:
>> On 13-03-19 03:19 PM, Bruce Marriner wrote:
>>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: Re: Stable Kontact client for Kolab3
>>> Date: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 05:31 PM CDT
>>> From: Bruce <bruce at bmts.us>
>>> To: geoffn at gnaa.net
>>> References: <2473-51489d00-15-6b63b480 at 162917080> 
>>> <5148B8DD.5080303 at gnaa.net>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 3/19/2013 2:13 PM, Geoff Nordli wrote:
>>>
>>> One thing to note about the bynari connector is it uses an OST to 
>>> store your mailbox.
>>>
>>> So if you have a large mailbox, then the connector becomes unusable.
>>>
>>>
>>> Geoff
>>>
>>>
>>> Do you know at what point it becomes a problem?  Has th is been 
>>> mentioned to Bynari? Perhaps there's a way to improve it so it 
>>> doesn't become "unusable".
>>
>> I would say around 5GB.
>>
>> they are aware of the limitations, but they have decided to keep 
>> using an OST because of the increase in stability it offers.
>>
>> It would be nice to find an alternative way to deal with this, 
>> because some of my clients have very large mailboxes.  I have had to 
>> move them to IMAP connections and lose some of the groupware 
>> functionality.
>>
>> Geoff
>>

I agree, 1-2GB is definitely the "safe" range.

I would love to see a good connector for MS Outlook which can work with 
large mailboxes.

Geoff




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