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What is the path/subject size limit?

You will have to give a bit of context here, I have no idea what you mean

Yes, I guess that was a little vague. Sorry long night of coding. Anyway, I have occasionally seen soft errors with the smart cache about exceeding size limits. This seems to be with messages with really long subjects. Movings some of these messages to a smaller depth has eliminated some of the errors at times, making it also seem like this may also be a factor. Anyway removing these messages seem to eliminate these errors. So this size error for some field seems like it is either the subject or subject/path combination, subject/MessageID combination. I do not have very deep paths, so it is not caused be insanely deep paths (email folder paths). But it does seem to happen on certain messages that have long subjects. So I was wondering what the size limit is on the above fields and/or field combinations.

There could indeed be a limit on the subject length, but I doubt there is one on the folder path depth (I use some pretty deep ones in my own mailstore). However, you will have to ask Scalix for a list of such restrictions.

ERROR RETURNED BY SCALIX SERVER: New field supplied exceeds size limit (container extension data) (UAL_PUTSYNC returned error 2506)

is the error in question. I do think it is the subject field now.

Are there any errors on the server in the fatal log (~logs) or in the event log?

What is the user/ual trying to do when this error is generated?
I wonder if its one of the directory attributes that is too long?

Mick

No, I didn't see a log entry on the server, only the smart cache log. It seems to happen on sync after a message with a long subject is received. I have noticed this with messages from Dell, As they have lots of information in the subjects. To get rid of the messages you seem to have to delete these messages and reset the cache. I have not noticed any side effects to leaving this messages and just ignoring the errors. This leads me to believe it may be for some non essential process, maybe some kind of indexing to a database or something. I already deleted the offending messages not thinking so can't post that to help, but it had a plain text subject in the 50 character range, but in the messages is was encoded using utf-8 character set and was almost 100 characters. This error seems to occur even if the messages in in the root of Inbox.

Not so sure it is a subject size thing anymore. Does anyone know what this error is and how to get rid of it.