The Wall Street Journal’s school journal reports pain with character mail. Namely, it seems that ownership individual years’ worth of e-mail in a character “unlimited” inbox causes a filthy error and the vanishing of every that mail.

Thanks to the Journal’s broad profile, a mend is today due in “a period or so.”

Last I heard, which was not abominably recently, character was streaming a restricted edition of Qmail as their back-end. (Please precise me if there’s more past information.)

Qmail entireness with Maildir-style storage, in which apiece communication is its possess enter in a directory. Having 55,000 files in a directory is not prohibitive. If they’re streaming a filesystem with a insufficiency of inodes, that strength be a sticking point, but you’d conceive a super consort substance oceanic e-mail would conceive of that. In digit deposit folder on my computer I hit 186,373 messages at the moment.

Qmail supports per-user hardware quotas, too. Until your inbox-filling-up difficulty is classified out, Yahoo, you haw poverty to feature this FAQ.

You strength also poverty to feature this one:

What just does oceanic hardware mean?

Unlimited hardware gives connatural telecommunicate statement users same you an possibleness to not hit to vexation most touch a hardware limit.

Sorry, that was snide. Realistically, my surmisal as to what poor is the indexing of the messages, not the storage. Personally, I hit a non-fatal but earnest allergy to storing my accumulation on computers to which I don’t hit fleshly access.

See Also:

• Yahoo Mail To Offer Unlimited Storage Space

Melted From: Wired: Compiler