How many Gigabytes can Mail folders hold?

Outlook can hold a total of 20 GB of emails. How many GB of emails can I have stored in my Inbox and Sent items on my computer? Can someone quote a link to a support doc that confirms same?
Thanks
Message was edited by: Johnny MacHappy

Johnny,
The only thing written that I know of, is for individual mailboxes, and for 10.4 and later is 2 GB as outlined at:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1895
Basically I was the person who proved to Apple that overstuffing actually took place -- that was back in 2004, and OS 10.2, and 10.3.
When and if any Inbox or Sent even starts to approach 2 GB, I create new On My Mac mailboxes for the oldest date ranges in that mailbox, and move the messages to new mailbox. All the messages are still within reach of the Search. I have over 100,000 messages spread across many mailboxes.
Ernie

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