On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 12:16, Chege <compulinekenya@gmail.com> wrote:
Hii all, is there an open source mail server...or a nice mail client ... *Current State.*
1. Using Microsoft Outlook for client...but the pst file has become very heavy approx 6gb..max should be 2gb from the literature. 2. Old emails are needed for reference purpose as old as 4 yrs old in some cases hence the size both in and out. 3. the heavy pst file sometimes makes the Microsoft outlook to freeze
*Solution needed.*
1. A mail client that can import and handle the heavy pst file.
OR A mail server opensource..that provides imap services so that one can access sent items on the server.
Any suggestins
rgds
Hi Chege, I am not a Microsoft expert but I have clues on what you can do. First, what version of MS Office Outlook is this you are using that has 2GB limit? Office XP? IIRC, Office 2003 had an 8GB limit which could be increased to 20GB via certain registry tweaks for the techies who like to live dangerously:-) Anyway, the fastest you can do is to see if creating archive files of the e-mails based on the year would suffice. By this, I mean that you manually run the archival process and select date ranges as 1st Jan YYYY to 31st Dec YYYY. See what file size you end up with. If it's less than the specified limit (which you say is 2GB in your case), then you are okay. Simply don't mount that particular archive file until when someone needs to refer to it. At that point, it can be mounted, reference made, then unmounted. This way it's not quite part of Outlook and so does not affect Outlook in any way. You can do that for every year in the past, so that what you have in the default .pst is just the current year. Backup! backup! backup! I just can't help but remind you. Now, to the Open Source. Basically, you will be creating a challenge for yourself. Good as it may look, because you are about to learn something new (yes, you appeared not to know already), you will be introducing another point of failure and complication on your network by moving the data to a server (Open Source). The server is just more work for yourself, plus it's an additional expense. By introducing the server, you add more admin tasks to yourself. I'd advise you on an easier way - get a good NAS, with good redundancy. Also see if you can run on GiB ethernet, though MiB ethernet will do just fine. Store the archived .pst files on the NAS and let them be mounted from there when needed. You need to do some serious planning around this. If you must run an Open Source Server, then get yourself any Unix-based OS of your choice and run Dovecot. It provides IMAP4 as well as POP3. How you handle this is upon you, really. If you are a MS shop and have a budget, you can upgrade to Office 2010, which has a 50GiB limit on the .pst files. However, Outlook slowing down / working fast depends also on the resources (CPU/RAM/Disk Speed) of the host PC. -- Best regards, Odhiambo WASHINGTON, Nairobi,KE +254733744121/+254722743223 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ I can't hear you -- I'm using the scrambler. Please consider the environment before printing this email.
