Vista - maximum Message store size

What is the maximum Message Store size for Windows Live Mail? I have seen
the max .pst file sizes published for Outlook and was looking for something
similar in Windows Live Mail.

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Joe Germanoski MCSE, MCP+I
joegerm@xxxxxx

Unlike Outlook or even Outlook Express, each message is a separate
operating system file (*.EML for mail and *.NWS for news posts).

So you don't run into some of the issues of those programs.

There is Mail.MSMessageStore file that is an index to the messages and
can get large, but no where near the size of the Outlook PST or Outlook
Express DBX files. Every 100 closings of WLM you will be prompted to
clean up which will reduce the size of this file.

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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm



"Joe Germanoski" <joegerm@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Sometimes..
If you're predominant use of WLM is mail and news vs. Outlook(mail only) for those same email accounts..WLM can grow at a much
faster clip than Outlook's pst. My compacted WLM Mail.MSMessageStore is 6 times larger than my compacted Outlook 2007 pst
file(s)[includes Archive pst] for those same email accounts(pop3 and http). Size is also subject to user management(delete,
archive elsewhere/delete).

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...winston
ms-mvp mail


"Michael Santovec" <michael_santovec@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:eBRK7WXOJHA.4116@xxxxxx

A number of things would come into play.

The WLM Mail.MSMessageStore also has the list of news groups on all the
news servers that you use. So if you access several news servers with
tens of thousands of newsgroups, that will have an impact.

On the other hand, if you tend to keep messages with large attachments,
the WLM Mail.MSMessageStore won't be impacted by that whereas your
Outlook PST (or OE DBX) file would be.

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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm



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