Is there restriction on the size of .pst file?

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I remember that 3 years ago when I used to work for some email company I
found about 16MB restriction on the size of .pst file that was preventing me
from receiving and processing with extended MAPI email responces via Outlook.
I got a lot of sent emails and for a few years avoided to archive it.
So today outlook refused to receive emails.
I still can do it with Outlook Express and later import them.
When I checked account with Outlook and tryed to send test it failed on
Outllok but displayed test messages at Outlook express.
Why to force this limit on outlook?
 
If you are on a home PC with pop/smtp access the size limit depends on
version of OL
Pre OL 2003 2gb, problems can appear from 1.6gb
OL 2003, unicode format pst, 20gb maybe more
If you are connected to Exchange I 'believe' the administrator can set
limits on the ost
 
I did archived a lot of my personal folders and did compacting so it grow
even bigger and still does not want to receive email. Is there any
possibility to fix this?
 
UncleSam89 said:
I did archived a lot of my personal folders and did compacting so it
grow even bigger and still does not want to receive email. Is there
any possibility to fix this?
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What is the exact text of any error messages?
 
Run scanpst.exe on both pst's - they are not to large-

What *exact* err msg do you get when you send?
 
Task 'mail.bellsouth.net - Receiving' reported error (0x8007007E) : 'Unknown
Error 0x8007007E'
 
install on new disk fresh Os and office.
It is working.
Imported all data including archive on new drive.
It seema ok.
Probably OL or its config was damaged, but all .pst were ok
 
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