Stupid application limits

For the most part, I like Eudora - it has a decent interface for setting up filters and is generally a nice email client. Today I ran across a limitation that ticked me off though. I get cc'd on all the mails from the NC download application - it's a useful backup of the information entered, especially if people don't receive the emails (likely do to spam blocks). I've never deleted or archived mail from that folder, and that got me into trouble today. I clocked over 32K messages in that folder at some point today, and Eudora crashed. That's always an irritation, as I get everything back in my inbox since the last mailbox compaction. However, it was worse today - everytime a new mail for that folder came in, Eudora would get baffled, and eventually crash. This got tiresome in a hurry. Eventually, I ended up having to open the blasted folder file in an editor and trim off old messages by hand, and then let Eudora rebuild the table of contents on startup. Yeah, I know that 32K messages is a lot. On the other hand, I was keeping them easily accessible for a reason. Why should there be a limit like that? Here's another place that static typing is "helping" me. Someone at Qualcomm decided that a specific size integer was all "anyone would ever need". Sigh...