upper limit on messages in Mail app? and other questions...

[abevilac]

I have a dp 1.8 G5 tower running 10.4.11 and my Mail app has 23,000 msgs in it. I've been having to throw out the mail index every few weeks because I get this msg on startup. "Mail cannot update your mailboxes because your home directory is full" as per instructions from Apple. http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24486

It rebuilds the mail after throwing out the mail index and I'm fine for another few weeks, but it's getting annoying. The odd thing is that the icon on the mail index that I trash is a generic one - corner bent sheet of paper. Is that what it's supposed to be?

I've just got a copy of Leopard and I'm thinking of upgrading but I don't want this problem to follow me. I'd like suggestions from the respectful motley crew.

[Ken Sp.]

I have 29,996 and I don't get that message in Leopard and didn't in Tiger.

[BigGuynRusty]

abevilac wrote:
I have a dp 1.8 G5 tower running 10.4.11 and my Mail app has 23,000 msgs in it. I've been having to throw out the mail index every few weeks because I get this msg on startup. "Mail cannot update your mailboxes because your home directory is full" as per instructions from Apple. http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24486

It rebuilds the mail after throwing out the mail index and I'm fine for another few weeks, but it's getting annoying. The odd thing is that the icon on the mail index that I trash is a generic one - corner bent sheet of paper. Is that what it's supposed to be?

I've just got a copy of Leopard and I'm thinking of upgrading but I don't want this problem to follow me. I'd like suggestions from the respectful motley crew.

How full is your HDD??

BGnR

[clay]

BigGuynRusty wrote:
[quote=abevilac]
I have a dp 1.8 G5 tower running 10.4.11 and my Mail app has 23,000 msgs in it. I've been having to throw out the mail index every few weeks because I get this msg on startup. "Mail cannot update your mailboxes because your home directory is full" as per instructions from Apple. http://support.apple.com/kb/TA24486

It rebuilds the mail after throwing out the mail index and I'm fine for another few weeks, but it's getting annoying. The odd thing is that the icon on the mail index that I trash is a generic one - corner bent sheet of paper. Is that what it's supposed to be?

I've just got a copy of Leopard and I'm thinking of upgrading but I don't want this problem to follow me. I'd like suggestions from the respectful motley crew.

How full is your HDD??

BGnR
Ditto to BGnR. Sounds less like a mail issue and more like a hard drive full issue.

[abevilac]

I have 260 GB left.

[AlphaDog]

Why in the world do any of you have that many messages?! Egad. If I was ever going to keep that many, I sure wouldn't have them stored on my own HD. ??? Is seems like there should be a much better way.

[abevilac]

I have 5 different accounts: businesses, university business, personals and some go back to 1998 and I'd like to keep them as long as they are searchable.

[C(-)ris]

I've seen that error on clients machines. It has nothing to do with how full your home directory is. Apple support was spot on, it is a corrupt envelope index. The real question is what keeps corrupting it. I would run a disk verify and make sure there aren't any disk errors.

[M A V I C]

Are these IMAP or POP accounts?

AlphaDog wrote:
Why in the world do any of you have that many messages?! Egad. If I was ever going to keep that many, I sure wouldn't have them stored on my own HD. ??? Is seems like there should be a much better way.

I've got more unread messages than he's got total messages. I've got well over 100k messages - nearly 10GB with attachments.

[Silencio]

I think having more than 10,000 messages in any individual mailbox (folder) is asking for trouble.

Create more mailboxes in Apple Mail and split up your mail into more manageable chunks that way.