I know there are a number of people out there still using Outlook Express. If you have been sending and receiving email for years, and have never filed messages into sub-folders, keeping all your email in the Inbox–you may soon run afoul of the maximum size limit for a single folder in Outlook Express: 2 GB.

Maybe you, dear reader, do not use Outlook Express, but you know someone who does–pass this helpful message along: “it’s time to archive that old email!”

For more information on this topic and how to recover from database corruption caused by exceeding the size limit in Outlook Express, see this excellent and informative article at Microsoft.