Didn't notice that my reply to this didn't include the list (the
default reply option due to having my address directly was "to
sender", not "to list" due to a local setting). Only noticed after the
fact.
My response:
One of my IMAP folders has over 13000 messages and is handled fine,
but I am not currently sure how much actual space that is taking up
right now. I suspect it isn't even half a GB. However, Microsoft
states (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/830336) that Outlook 2007
doesn't use the 2GB limited format for anything by default, and that
the default limit is 20GB as a result, likely with registry options to
allow it to grow larger.
The only issue I see with "deleting messages doesn't make them go
away" is that "delete" on an IMAP account is "flag as deleted" by
default, which means you need to issue an IMAP purge command. As I
don't use "trash" folders I prefer this behavior, even in Thunderbird
and Horde. I just add the purge commands to my toolbar. I think the
flagged as deleted thing is what you are thinking about with the "some
sort of compact operation", and is technically how IMAP is supposed to
handle deletes.
For that issue, there is a "Purge items when switching folders while
online" option, per account, that can be enabled. Also, the showing of
deleted items is optional (when shown they, in all clients I have
used, have a strike-through applied to them).
Thomas Berezansky Merrimack Valley Library Consortium
Quoting Thomas Harold thomas-lists@nybeta.com:
On 11/20/2009 1:51 PM, Thomas Berezansky wrote:
Personally, I am using Horde (http://www.horde.org/) at work (this address) and Outlook 2007 at home (largely due to getting freaky attachments I need to open on a regular basis that only Microsoft mail clients seem to be able to open properly).
Out of morbid curiosity... how good is Outlook 2007 at IMAP? I've
had experience with Outlook 2003 and the 2GB PST limit was a deal
breaker for me. I'm curious whether Outlook is getting better or
worse at IMAP.(In OL2003, they introduced a better PST format that was no longer
limited to 2GB. But you can't use it with IMAP accounts. It also
had weird behavior like deleting messages would not make them vanish
from the folder until you did some sort of compact operation.)