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Re: Is there a limit to the mailbox file size in TB ?

From Torsten Villnow <t.villnow@gmail.com>
Newsgroups alt.comp.software.thunderbird
Subject Re: Is there a limit to the mailbox file size in TB ?
Date 2021-07-14 16:01 +0200
Message-ID <il891sF297jU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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Am 14.07.2021 um 13:39 schrieb Bears:
> On 7/13/21 8:35 PM, this is what Lynn McGuire wrote:
>> Is there a limit to the mailbox file size in TB ?
>>
>> Several of my mailbox files are approaching 4 GB.  I am wondering if I 
>> need to split them again.  I have well over 50 GB of email and news 
>> stored in my TB mailbox files.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Lynn
> What file names in particular?   My entire .thunderbird folder is only 
> 500Meg. and that's after I know more than 20 years of TB usage with 5 
> accounts.   Of course I prune my sent & trash folders every 6 months or 
> so keeping the last 6 months of files.

... I always archive last year's mails at some point in time during the 
year, because I do not need them "active" in my mailboxes (IMAP). 
Additionally I detach/delete almost all appendices from mails.

-- 
Torsten Villnow

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Is there a limit to the mailbox file size in TB ? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2021-07-13 19:35 -0500
  Re: Is there a limit to the mailbox file size in TB ? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2021-07-13 22:50 -0500
    Re: Is there a limit to the mailbox file size in TB ? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2021-07-14 12:53 -0500
  Re: Is there a limit to the mailbox file size in TB ? "Andrei Z." <no-email@invalid.invalid> - 2021-07-14 07:17 +0300
    Re: Is there a limit to the mailbox file size in TB ? Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2021-07-14 12:56 -0500
      Re: Is there a limit to the mailbox file size in TB ? Stan Brown <the_stan_brown@fastmail.fm> - 2021-07-14 11:08 -0700
  Re: Is there a limit to the mailbox file size in TB ? Bears <Bears@invalid.com> - 2021-07-14 07:39 -0400
    Re: Is there a limit to the mailbox file size in TB ? Torsten Villnow <t.villnow@gmail.com> - 2021-07-14 16:01 +0200
    Re: Is there a limit to the mailbox file size in TB ? Wolf K <wolfmac@sympatico.ca> - 2021-07-14 10:05 -0400
      Re: Is there a limit to the mailbox file size in TB ? Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> - 2021-07-14 12:48 -0600
      Re: Is there a limit to the mailbox file size in TB ? Bears <Bears@invalid.com> - 2021-07-14 18:51 -0400
        Re: Is there a limit to the mailbox file size in TB ? VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2021-07-14 19:17 -0500

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