I had a user call me and say there was no way their mailbox was within 10% of the maximum size allowed. They said they had emptied the deleted items the day before. I took a look and at first, it appeared they were correct. Then, it dawned on me to check the View settings. They had it set to Unread. When I changed it to All, 28,000 messages showed up.
From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:05:21 -0500 Subject: RE: Stupid user tricks! I only give them 48 hours! John W. Cook Systems Administrator Partnership For Strong Families 315 SE 2nd Ave Gainesville, Fl 32601 Office (352) 393-2741 x320 Cell (352) 215-6944 Fax (352) 393-2746 MCSE, MCTS, MCP+I, A+, N+, VSP4, VTSP4 From: Glen Johnson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 1:35 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stupid user tricks! Wow. I wouldn’t dream of running our system without auto empty items out of trash after 7 days enabled. I’m sure we’d have people that would never empty their own. Just like they don’t expect everyone to empty their physical trash can, I don’t expect people to empty their email trash so the system does it for them. From: Terry Dickson [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 1:31 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stupid user tricks! I have one user that has been warned not to do that but they still do. Last time I looked there were over 30,000 items in there. I have over 4000, but I delete mine about every week, I just have not done it in a while, maybe 10 days. I think I will clean it out now. From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 12:17 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stupid user tricks! We had the same thing happen with a user here. I know enough about user interface design to know that it can be hard to have universally-understood paradigms, but the notion of putting an item in the trash is one that you’d think pretty much everyone gets. Nobody would dream of using the garbage can as a file storage system in the physical world. Why they would do so in the virtual world is beyond me. From: Mathew Shember [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 1:00 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stupid user tricks! No no no. Be like one user I had. He used the trash and the deleted items folder to store mail and files for future reference. He had an aneurism when a person responded to an out of space call and cleaned up! >J From: Jacob [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 9:52 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Stupid user tricks! Email should never be used for transfer for large file... just storage of large files. ;-) From: John Aldrich [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 23, 2010 7:30 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Stupid user tricks! I just had to talk to a user who’d tried to send himself two messages with 13 megs of attachments on each email. And he was wondering why his POP email was timing out! GAH! Stupid Users‼ Email is NOT designed for transferring files‼ </RANT> Sorry… had to get that off my chest! NOTICE: Florida has a broad public records law. Most written communications to or from this entity are public records that will be disclosed to the public and the media upon request. E-mail communications may be subject to public disclosure. CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: The information transmitted, or contained or attached to or with this Notice is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain Protected Health Information (PHI), confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, transmission, dissemination, or other use of, and taking any action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient without the express written consent of the sender are prohibited. This information may be protected by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), and other Federal and Florida laws. Improper or unauthorized use or disclosure of this information could result in civil and/or criminal penalties. Consider the environment. Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to. This email and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the intended recipient(s). If you are not the named recipient you should not read, distribute, copy or alter this email. Any views or opinions expressed in this email are those of the author and do not represent those of the company. Warning: Although precautions have been taken to make sure no viruses are present in this email, the company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage that arise from the use of this email or attachments. _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469227/direct/01/ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
