Create and use a distribution list instead of 500K worth of recipients. 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 Tim Ault Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 2:27 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Message Size w/BCC Right. A side effect of this is that each user's mailbox is debited 500k for no apparent reason. As a test, I BCC-sent the same message thru the gateway into our domain and checked the size. Result: message size <1k. Tim. x3683 -----Original Message----- From: Patrick R. Sweeney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 5:12 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Re: Message Size w/BCC Given that exchange provides Single-Instance-Storage I suspect you are correct -- that the info is in the store, but obfuscated for other users. -Patrick R. Sweeney http://boston.craigslist.org/bos/res/8484283.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Ault" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 4:39 PM Subject: Message Size w/BCC > I occasionally BCC-send broadcast messages to 2500 recipients within > our company. The email contains less than 1k of text. The size of the > message in > the sent items folder is 500k, which makes sense when the recipient > field is > taken into account. > > I find it odd that the email appears with message size of 500k to its > recipients. Were a recipient to forward or reply to the message, its > size appears as less than 1k. > > It seems the message's recipient information is being conveyed, though > obfuscated, between intra-Org exchsrvr recipients, and that would > explain the size of the email? > > Or is it a bug? > > Tim. > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

