extreme free space difference

[florian]

Hi Fabio,

thanks for your message. Unfortunately, there is currently no way to reduce the disk space usage.

How many users and how big a message store are we talking about here? As I said, this will only affect messages newly imported, not the ones subsequently received.

If you can use Outlook in any way, that would reduce disk space usage, i.e. download the messages to a Outlook PST from your old mail server using IMAP and then importing them to Scalix using the Scalix Connector. In that case, Outlook would only create the messages as Scalix-Format messages and disk space usage should be a lot more conservative.

Let me know if this could work for you.

Florian.

[fabio]

Hi Florian,
thanks to have answered me, have been very clear.
My problem is that I have an account of 24 GBs and I am afraid that to create a file pst of these dimensions is a problem (I believe is had to modify on the Windows's registers).
I wondered me if it were possible to resolve the problem with a procedure of this type:
1) to export the mail with sxbackup or sxmboxexp;
2) to cancel the exported mail (step 1);
3) to again import the mail (from backup).

Do you believe that It could work?

Fabio

[fabio]

I wondered me if it were possible to resolve the problem with a procedure of this type:
1) to export the mail with sxbackup or sxmboxexp;
2) to cancel the exported mail (step 1);
3) to again import the mail (from backup).

Do not work

I must to use Outlook.

Fabio

[jch]

I don't know of any sync tools that do this for you, but my favoured way to get messages from one system to another is to mail them in and then re-file as needed once the messages have been delivered.

If you have Outlook users, you will tend to get better message fidelity that way. On the other hand, if fidelity isn't a problem, well, disk space is very cheap these days and it may not be worth worrying about.

jch