Hi There,

If the messages in a folder are all text messages, I have never had a 
problem.  It's when you start sending lots of large attachments that you 
have a problem--namely a sluggish reaction from Outlook Express when opening 
and closing the program.  In addition, Windows wants to compress the folders 
more and more and sometimes there can be damaging errors during this process 
if the folder file is too big.  My advice is to at least delete the messages 
with large attachments from your sent items folder and you shouldn't have 
major problems.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "T Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: off topic


    Hi, folks.

All of this brings up another Outlook Express question:

Anyone know how many messages you can keep in your "sent file" before it
gets too full?

Obviously, the answer to this question will depend on the size of the
messages, but right now, I have about 6 thousand messages in there.

I keep my sent file because it's a good record of what I have done, and more
than once, I've saved myself a lot of grief by being able to go back and
find something that I had sent and really needed to access again.

Some people think I'm nuts, but it really has helped me at times.

73 from Tom Behler:  KB8TYJ

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Miller" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: off topic


> Should have asked me, that's the 3rd or 4th thing I'd have done. Not that
> I've had that problem, but I have had problems similar in the past where
> deleting a folder fixes the problem.