Is he in sales? Those guys tend to keep everything. But they say that old information like that leads to sales, so it's hard to tell them that there isn't business value.
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Varghese, Wilson Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 11:31 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: When is a mailbox officially "too big"? I have one user with a mailbox of 5.8gigs. talk about a packrat. -----Original Message----- From: Nurv [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2004 8:20 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: When is a mailbox officially "too big"? Maybe I am old school, but I had a few users with 1GB mailboxes. I made them clean it up. For the most part the reasons these mailboxes were so large was because they were keeping attachments in their emails. I had them save all the attachments to their home directory on the file server. Its hard for me to believe that users have 1gb or in your case 2gb mailboxes. To me thats not very organized. Unless they are a CEO or some VIP type position, they shouldnt have large mailboxes. I also understand that people want to keep messages for CYA, but that shouldnt include attachments in messages. I was getting tired of seeing my store grow 3gb a month for the last year. I now have a 60gb priv and a 50gb pub. So take my opinion with the grain of salt.. My company does not enforce an mailbox limit at this time. Mike Anderson wrote: >Hello, > >Our 2 principles in our company, now have mailboxes that are over 2 Gigs >in size EACH. > >Is it irresponsible of me, to let this go on? I mean, the likelihood of >a crash, and dealing with these singularly gargantuan mail files - >should I maybe create different (or additional) message stores, rather >than folders - in order to categorize their e-mail? Then just give them >access to the stores, so they all appear inside their Outlook - which >will allow them to grow larger separately (using rules, etc. to stick >particular types of e-mails into the proper folders). > >OR is this not a big deal, because Exchange handles the mail store so >well (knock on wood). > >I would love to hear your input regarding the topic. 2 Gigs seems >excessive - AND another thing I can no longer run is EXMERGE - because >you can't break the 2 Gig .PST barrier. > >That's another thing I always liked doing, for nice clean archives - is >running EXMERGE and generating individual .PST files for each of our >users mailboxes. It's cool, because if a user ever wanted to get up and >running IMMEDIATELY (after a crash), I could simply copy their latest >.PST file to their local machine, and they can at least get most of >their mail, while I am busy restoring the server. > >Thanks for your input, > >Mike > > >_________________________________________________________________ >List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm >Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english >To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: >Jupitermedia Corp. >Attn: Discussion List Management >475 Park Avenue South >New York, NY 10016 > >Please include the email address which you have been contacted with. > > > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&; lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe via postal mail, please contact us at: Jupitermedia Corp. 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