On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 13:10:04 +0100, "Pieter"
wrote:

Hi,

My document-management-application must store the emails (using Outlook
2003) of the users to a common folder, and a link is added in a database.
From an other application these emails can be opened.

I'm now using a public MailBox on our Exchange (2000, in some months 2003)
server, and I use the StoreID and EntryID of the OutlookItems and Folder to
get the right Mail and open it.

The only problem is: after 4 months of use, the public mailbox takes
alreaddy 100 Megabytes.

So my questions a
- Won't I get a performance-problem in the future when the public mailbox is
growing? It will be used more intensively soon, so I think it will grow evey
year with 1 giga...
- Doesn't such a big mailbox doesn't get corrupted or
I-don't-know-what-can-happens with soemthing like that?
- Should I better chose another way of storing the items? Just on a
networkshare saving all the emails ass *.msg-files? Or any better idea? But
won't that give less performance?

Any help, hints, links, experiences would be really appreciated!

Thanks a lot in advance,

Pieter




The size of the mailbox isnt the problem, its the item count.
http://209.34.241.68/exchange/archiv...14/395229.aspx

You may want to look at mailbox manager or a scripted exmerge job to
keep the number of items in check if you begin to see performance
problems.