Microsoft Outlook limits the size of Personal Folders .pst files and offline folders .ost files to 2GB. If a new or changed item increases the size over than limit, you will not be able to use the .pst or .ost file. Even if you delete items from the server mailbox, the .ost file will not synchronize. Microsoft provides a tool called Oversized PST and OST crop tool to trim down a .pst or .ost file that exceeded 2GB. The tool truncates the .pst or .

In the navigation bar at the left of your Outlook window, highlight the 'Mailbox'... it's likely to appear as 'Mailbox - Jane Smith' or similar. A size summary window will be displayed. It will show local Mailbox size, and server Mailbox size. The total values for these two should be roughly the same.

Trying to access my mail account via the Web, I get an error message regarding a failure to get my inbox.

Microsoft Exchange assigns a size limit to each mail account of 100MB. If you are receiving an alert telling you that you are about to exceed or have exceeded your limit, you will need to clean out some space in your Inbox, Sent Items, etc. Delete any unneeded or very old items, as well as e-mails which have very large attachments (make sure to save the attachment to your hard drive first) A typically e-mail message of 100 words takes up 25k of space.

You can determine the size of your entire mailbox by selecting Mailbox - Last Name, First Name instead of a single folder. If you are having trouble staying below quota, it may be useful for you to locate solitary large messages which are clogging up your mailbox. To do so: Go to the Search Folders below the Sent Items folder and click on the Large Mail search folder. This will show all messages larger than 500 KB.

If you want to manually configure your profile, please see How to Create an Exchange Profile in Outlook 2003. For Office 2007 on domain systems the profile is configured automatically. Please see How to Create an Exchange Profile in Outlook 2007 to be walked through the process.

You will not be able to send any emails when your mailbox reaches 4.5 MB (approx. 4500 KB) of space used. You will not be able to receive or send any emails when your mailbox reaches 5MB (approx. 5000 KB) of space used.

Your mailbox allowance is set to a limit of 20MB. This includes all mail stored, received or sent within your mailbox at any time.

SBME files have a theoretical size limitation of 64 Exabytes on Win32 on an NTFS file system. On Linux the maximum size is based on the file system limitations of the target file system, though currently they are limited to 2GB in size until support is added for the large volume commands. This will be done prior to release of the first commercial version. SIMPOL will also have a Form Designer and Graphic Report Designer. These tools are being built in SIMPOL itself.

Click on OK a few times and then run Outlook. The additional mailbox should be listed. If you receive errors when you try to expand it you need to check your permissions to the mailbox.

Outlook and GroupWise both use the built-in "Mail Profile" feature of Windows to determine the mailbox information. If you open Outlook but the computer is configured to read the GroupWise mailbox (or vice-versa) you will see the contents of GroupWise. Since both programs are installed on your computer you must either specify which profile to use or have the system prompt you.

Location should be added with 'create location' or accessdb as a work or auxiliary work. See page 5-24 of the II 2.0 DBA Guide. Also, the 'set work location' statement can be used within a session to use an additional location for that session. See page 5-27 of the II 2.0 DBA Guide.

This is dictated by the fact that file positions are calculated using signed 32bit arithmetic. For this reason you should ensure that wave files to be processed in Wave Corrector are no longer than 3hrs 30mins.

If a .pst file exceeds 2GB, Outlook can't open it. The pst2gb.exe tool, which you can get from Microsoft Product Support Services (click here to download), can help you recover most of your data, but you probably won't get it all back. Try to keep any .pst files well under that 2GB limit. To maintain reasonably sized .pst files, delete messages you don't need to keep, empty the Deleted Items folder regularly or automatically, and occasionally compact the .

Basic dial-up Internet access accounts are set-up with a 10.0 MB combined storage limit for email and web space accounts.

When you select a view, GroupWise searches for items in the selected folder and displays the items in descending order, from the largest file size to the smallest. You can click Stop Query at any time to stop the query. Use Mailbox Storage Size Information to view your mailbox size and to manage items to regain space. If your mailbox size exceeds the limit, you cannot send new items until you archive or delete some of your existing items.