working with huge mailboxes is close to impossible
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Would a smaller sync window for the emails be an option? E.g. synchronizing only 2 month of emails instead of the full 20 GB of data?
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yes, that would be way better, but if I see it correctly, the only option is “1 month” vs. “all” in the ActiveSync account settings.
And 1 month is definitively not enough.
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Perhaps if that’s not available to choose from in Outlook, it could be a setting somewhere on the backend in the config in z-push where the users can force a particular sync time? I.e. in Outlook the user selects “Everything” but on the back end if it limited say for a specific user and a particular client, to a specific interval?
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@daudo said in working with huge mailboxes is close to impossible:
So far, the best idea to at least remove parts of the synchronization overhead seems to be to use IMAP instead, which again comes with the disadvantage that it lacks calendaring and tasks. So this might be usable for the back office people, but not for the front desks, they must have access to the calendar & tasks.
Hi Udo,
Yes but the front desk also may be able to use imap for the shared mails, and can use the calendar and tasks over KOE Active Sync
rg
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Yes but the front desk also may be able to use imap for the shared mails, and can use the calendar and tasks over KOE Active Sync
AFAIK Outlook 2016 can either sync all of Contacts/Calendar/Mail or nothing. How do you use ActiveSync in Outlook 2016 to sync only the Calendar as you have suggested?
PS: Also, IMAP in Outlook 2016 will keep a local copy of the entire mail database. So if you have 100GB Mails in the shared account every client will need the necessary free disk space for that.
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Hi, with Kopano KOE (Kopano Outloook Extension) you can select only Calendar from a shared mailbox
Also on IMAP account you can select 1,3,6,12 or 24 month of offline mail download or all
rg
Christian -
Well the limitation that you need the disk space applies to ActiveSync and IMAP likewise (although with the latter you can limit the sync amount in detail, which we have done otherwise outlook spends too much time syncing IMAP accounts with many subfolders). The fact that all mails are stored locally means you need to treat large mailboxes carefully and plan migration of such accounts with disk space, performance, and sync time in mind.
After migrating a customer with many large mailboxes, I strongly suggest that if you want to use Kopano with Outlook and ActiveSync, then limit your Mailboxes to around 10GB and move the rest to an archival solution. In that way you can keep mailbox handling manageable also for the future - if the mailbox keeps growing, resyncing after e.g. reinstalling the client computer will take longer and longer.
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Hello all,
in my config.php from z-push there are some lines:
154 // Global limitation of items to be synchronized 155 // The mobile can define a sync back period for calendar and email items 156 // For large stores with many items the time period could be limited to a max value 157 // If the mobile transmits a wider time period, the defined max value is used 158 // Applicable values: 159 // SYNC_FILTERTYPE_ALL (default, no limitation) 160 // SYNC_FILTERTYPE_1DAY, SYNC_FILTERTYPE_3DAYS, SYNC_FILTERTYPE_1WEEK, SYNC_FILTERTYPE_2WEEKS, 161 // SYNC_FILTERTYPE_1MONTH, SYNC_FILTERTYPE_3MONTHS, SYNC_FILTERTYPE_6MONTHS 162 define('SYNC_FILTERTIME_MAX', SYNC_FILTERTYPE_6MONTHS);location on centos: /usr/share/z-push/config.php
you can define the sync-filter serverside.
Coffee_is_life
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Thanks, I must have missed this. Is there any way to configure it by username? I.e. you could have the case where a big mailbox is only for a particular user and the others aren’t therefore they want the entire history.
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@coffee_is_life said in working with huge mailboxes is close to impossible:
location on centos: /usr/share/z-push/config.php
If you install from packages you should always edit
/etc/z-push/z-push.conf.php
(at the end it’s the same file, but still).Cheers,
Sebastian
