Importing large email box

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Just registered DT Pro Office. I’d like to bring my email into a database that is dedicated to emails. My inbox has about 7,500 emails in it.

  1. Can I just import this from within DT pro office and expect it will import ok with such a large in box?

  2. When I import in the future, although I understand duplicates are not re-imported, will it be a problem (ie, take a long time) to import every week to keep DT database up to date?

  3. Lastly, if I use “import complete conversations,” I understand this will import sent part of threads as well. Will importing “sent” mailbox duplicate emails?

Thanks!

2

This should be possible assuming that the size of the messages is more or less a usual one.

3

The duplicate check is quite negligable and is valid for any mail message no matter how it got into the database.

Note that there is a known issue (a memory leak) when you import complete conversations, so after the import I recommend you restart the application.