On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 14:31:03 +0200, -Alias- wrote:

You can have as many messages as you want as long as each .dbx file
doesn't exceed 100 MB.

That would be his problem, no doubt. I suggested several times while
I was doing this that he needed to jettison OE for what he was doing
(his full mailbox is 4.5GB, and inbox and sent messages was 2.5GB of
it). Given the time that has passed, I wouldn't doubt if he's added
another .5GB on each of them.

Do not archive messages in the default folders such as Inbox, Sent Items
or Deleted Items. Create new folders under Local Folders for archiving.

That's what I did. Then I copied those DBX's out of the mailbox
folder.