mailboxes

Every once in a while, Cyrus IMAP will die due to a failure in the mailboxes.db file database data. This problem is typically cause by a read/write failure to the mailboxes.db file, which can occur from situations like a power outage during a write to the file.

This can lead to corrupt database indexing data in the file.

The Open Road: "With this fresh infusion of cash Open-Xchange is expected to mount a more serious challenge to Microsoft's ubiquitous Exchange product.

Open-Xchange claims 8.4 million paid mailboxes worldwide."

Zimbra, whose software runs 2 million mailboxes on college campuses, is about to become a hosted e-mail service for education.

Mailboxes are going the way of phone booths. More of us are paying our bills online and using the Internet to send our correspondence, so the U.S.

Postal Service has decided it needs fewer mailboxes.

Hosting provider 1&1 Internet has had trouble updating its Microsoft email platform leaving customers without access to web mailboxes for more than 24 hours, according to UK-based technology news website the ...

If you’ve used Plesk for long enough, you’ll eventually run in to the dreadfull “This address no longer accepts mail.” message bounces.

Even though the mail folders exist on the server, and in Plesk, mail won’t be delivered to that address.

Let’s fix that.

The Open Road: "I was on Zimbra's site today looking for the latest update to its excellent Desktop product, and came across the news that open-source Zimbra now has 11 million paid mailboxes..."

Conclusion - Linux-based Exchange alternatives that use the Linux file system, which is proven to scale reliability into multiple Petabytes, can support large, even bottomless mailboxes and make it possible to eliminate Outlook access in cached mode from laptops and desktops.

When setting up a new Leopard machine, I couldn't get any of my sub-mailboxes to show up under the mailboxes as they were on my other machines.

The trick to fix this was to go into the Advanced tab of the settings for each IMAP mail account in Mail's preferences, and remove the IMAP path that's now defaulting to INBOX.

When you remove this entry, Mail finds the rest of the mailboxes, and puts them back where they have always been, under the inbox for each account.