Recommended mailbox size limit 1

[cgwillard]

We are trying to determine an acceptable size limit for our users' mailboxes in Exchange 5.5. As a manufacturing company with 200 users, we would like to know what size limit other companies are using. Would anyone like to share this information with me:

What is your mailbox size limit?
Do you have different limits for different users within your company?
Other than the system administrator default message, how do you enforce the size limit?
Do you restrict your users from sending e-mail once they have exceeded their limit?
Do you have a written policy on mailbox size? If so, can you share it or part of it with me?

Thank you for your help!

cgwillard Only 26 years until retirement!

 

[alicep]

We have about 100 users on our exchange server. We encourage them to create .pst storage folders on their local hard drive and save whatever they want in those personal folders. I only have about 11 users(mostly upper level managers) that get above 50MB at any point in time.

What is your mailbox size limit? warn at 85000 and prohibit send at 95000 is the default for our private store

Do you have different limits for different users within your company? yes, lower limits 50MB for most users

Other than the system administrator default message, how do you enforce the size limit? The prohibit send usually gets the user to clean up their mailbox. Only once did I go to the user and force them to autoarchive (to a .pst) from their Outlook client.

Do you restrict your users from sending e-mail once they have exceeded their limit? yes

Do you have a written policy on mailbox size? not currently. My boss is working on policy.

 

[AlexIT]

We have allocated more space that Alicep, but we have only about 30-50 mailboxes on each server. We notify at 100MB, stop sending at 120MB, and stop sending and receiving at 150MB (for everyone.) Our sales personel have extensive public folders that they use to store customer contacts, so their mailboxes are the cleanest and each of them can find the e-mail a customer sent last week. Everyone else manages their old mail by exporting to .pst files.

The system admin message works fine for us, and our policy was not written out.

Alex