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Originally Posted by mistertate
My employer had an outlook email server crash this year and most of us lost everything. I assume my customers lost the same emails I lost. It was a PITA and embarrassing.
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The DB nature of Exchange is a nightmare.
One of the earliest iterations of Outlook used a local DB, actually still does.
One day I send an email and immediately get a pop up that says "Your mail store has exceeded the DB limit, so sorry but you are ****ed" then it crashed and I lost two years of mail.
What was infuriating was they thought to create an alert for an after the fact condition but not one that said "Hey dip****, your DB is almost full, back it up or purge it or do something before you receive a piece of mail and lose everything" which would have been far more useful.
To add insult to injury two days later MSFT issued a patch that increased the max DB size and gave you the nearing capacity warning before hand.