ok, I am an ID10T....

[jecook]

I'm migrating our office manager to her new machine today. No major worries, and it looks like she will be please with the new machine.

So I'm configuring her email account, and Outlook dutifully starts pulling down her mail.

all 2,278 messages, with a combined total of 486 Mbytes. Apparently, I set her old machine to leave the messages on the server and not clean them off EVER.

Whoopise.

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[compwizrd.livejournal.com]

i have that set as a default procedure, and have a script that goes through and pulls anything over 2 months off the server.

Works great when someone deletes something they shouldn't have.

[jecook]

Normally, I have it set to 5 or 10 days, depending on the lead time between the configuration process and when the machine is given to the user to abuse.

Somehow this one slipped through the cracks.

And our IT admin uses IMAP instead of POP, because she did not have a permanent machine when she started, so she was stuck on the web client full time and all her folders and whatnot are setup in there.

I hate to think as to what the ex IT director has for his mailbox. As far as I'm aware, that address is still in existance, even though the person is not.

[kuang.livejournal.com]

We're just going over to Exchange 2003, and are setting strict (and relatively low) mail quotas for the first time. One of our managers insists that all of her mail is important and that she can't move over to using the webmail service as she can't delete any of it in case she's asked for copies. 'How much mail does she have?' I hear you ask...

4.2Gb

All of it critical, apparently..

[jecook]

Ouch.

One of our executives here has a 6 GB PST file. Needless to say, outlook barfs on him pretty often.

[kuang.livejournal.com]

You'll love this then...

The account in question is currently stored in Nutscrape 4.7. This corrupts at least one folder every time you close it, as it shuts down before it's finished writing the contents back. It also tends to lose track of where an email ends and an attachment begins (each folder is just a text file), and when this happens the folder in question ballons in size every time it's opened. I managed to run a compact on on such folder a few days back that reduced it from 2.3Gb to 65Mb...

Apparently it's a bit slow, and can we do anything about it? THat ticket is still open.. ;)

[jecook]

Dump Netscrape and try to pull stuff over to outlook.

Beyond that, I'm lost. I stopped using netscape's email program for business use when the company gave me a laptop to use.

[kuang.livejournal.com]

Been trying to get the company to go for that for 5 years ;)

My current line is 'get your profile down to 50Mb or less and I'll switch your settings to use IMAP, subscribe to your exchange folders and drag your stuff across'. Imagine the stress of trying to get 4gb down to 50mb ;)

[jecook]

Bleck.

as for the emails I had stored in there, I ended up dumping them. I had been at the job for all of three months, and the really imprtant stuff I emailed myself in order to shove them over.

[major-error.livejournal.com]

wow.

what version of outlook?
It'd have to be pretty old cause XP & 2003 have a 2Gb cutoff.

[jecook]

User with 6 GB st running outlook 2003.

Outlook XP with a service pack or a hot fix, and outlook 2003 will support PST files over 2 GB (NTFS partitions only, obviously.)

Fat32 lusers are SOL. :)

[rileydag.livejournal.com]

S....orr.....y......h.....ard.....t...o......rea.....d........you..r......po....s..t.....Ne..t.....wo....r....k.......lag.....fr..o.m....la..rg....e....m.....ail........do....w...n.....l...oa...d.

:-P

Try living with that "oops" when your WAN connection to corporate is only a 128 KB leased line.

Yeah, it wasn't pretty.

[jecook]

::fall out of chair laughing::

We had one of our remote admin offices running on a 56K frame relay for a long time.

We moved them over to a cable modem/VPN connection, and the difference is night and day. :)