Not 600Megs but 2 Gig's... And the problem wasn't fixed until Outlook
2003 I believe... 

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Perdue [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 1:18 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: LookOut for Outlook


Denys Beauchemin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Gentle listers,
>Some time ago, someone on the list named Outlook, the email 
client from 
>MS, as Lookout.  If I remember correctly, someone sprayed coffee on a 
>large monitor when he read the original post.  I found it 
amusing also, 
>being a long-time user of Outlook.  My PST was started back in 
1997 and 
>has migrated across several laptops since then.  (In fact, it started 
>life on a Compaq Contura 410CX onboard a 330MB disk drive.  
The current 
>PST is almost 600MB right now.)
>
>I have just installed a product called LookOut for Outlook
2000/XP/2003.
>Outlook Express users need not be concerned with this software.
>
>LookOut is an indexer and retriever of data in the PST.  After first 
>indexing my PST, which took an hour, I am now able to do powerful 
>searches of my PST with instantaneous results.  If anyone ever does 
>searches of their PST for documents, message, calendar items and 
>whatnots, you would be well advised to look at this software.
>
>You can download it from www.lookoutsoft.com.  You will notice 
that the 
>download link will take you to the MS website.  That is correct,
Lookout
>Software has been acquired by MS.
>
>And finally, you can't beat the price:  free.
>
> Denys

My .pst's oldest e-mail is from 11-17-97. Be very careful at 
your 600Mb file size as a friend who is a Linux guru (on kernal 
development team for Gentoo.org Linux) had major problems with 
his .pst when it reached 600Mb. Possibly MS has fixed the root 
cause of those problems but to avoid any I archive project 
related mail from -IN and -OUT folders as the projects close to 
keep the .pst size < 100Mb. Just wanting to err on the size of 
caution....

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