random IT bitching: I really hate that nobody gives a Sh17 about mailbox sizes

[middlehead]

The only time I've given more than a 300MB individual mailbox was at my last job, a private company, to the owner. He was nearing 300MB so I gave him 500. Just before I left he asked for 1GB. The shitty part was having to stand down the CEO after he heard about it and demanded to have the same, while only using 60 or 70MB. I refused and the CEO demanded a reason, I told him "He owns the servers, you don't."

 

[Bateluer]

Shoot, I only get 100MB at work. Most of the emails I send and receive are measured in KBs though, so 100MB stores a shit ton of emails. I just let them accumulate, then start deleting anything more than 30 days old. Important emails, I archive though.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: jiggahertz
In 6 years of work at 2 companies, I have never deleted a corporate email.

same here:beer:

Depends on where you work though and if you are excluding spam that is already flagged once it hits your box (I am).

 

[JulesMaximus]

I have over 4,000 messages in my in-box and over 7,000 in my sent folder at work.

Edit-I do actually go through them and delete anything with an attachment though. Text messages take up virtually no space and I like to have backup.

 

[dmw16]

As if none IT folks have time to worry about stuff like that. I get emails sometimes about my mailbox size, but it is WAAAAAY down my priority list on any given day at work.

 

[trmiv]

Wow, 5 gigs each. Our max mailbox size here is 50 megs for regular folk, 100 megs for VP's, and unlimited for the super super important folks (CEO, CFO, etc).

 

[StinkyPinky]

1GB where I'm at. But we have an archive server so in a sense it's unlimited. (but the archive cannot be accessed off the network)

 

[BHeemsoth]

My company limits us to 100mb . I end up deleting/archiving several times a week.

 

[kt]

5GB? Only? My company's average is 10+GB per user. That's why we are in the process of implementing an email archiving solution. It's a solution that will satisfy everyone because as far as they know, their emails are still there in their Outlook interface. At the back end, their archived emails are not on the Exchange box but on the archive server. Win, win situation for IT and the rest of the employees. Can't wait to get the budget approved to implement it.

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: kt
5GB? Only? My company's average is 10+GB per user. That's why we are in the process of implementing an email archiving solution. It's a solution that will satisfy everyone because as far as they know, their emails are still there in their Outlook interface. At the back end, their archived emails are not on the Exchange box but on the archive server. Win, win situation for IT and the rest of the employees. Can't wait to get the budget approved to implement it.

I'm in the same boat.

 

[kt]

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: kt
5GB? Only? My company's average is 10+GB per user. That's why we are in the process of implementing an email archiving solution. It's a solution that will satisfy everyone because as far as they know, their emails are still there in their Outlook interface. At the back end, their archived emails are not on the Exchange box but on the archive server. Win, win situation for IT and the rest of the employees. Can't wait to get the budget approved to implement it.

I'm in the same boat.

Have you picked out email archiving solution yet?

 

[grrl]

Originally posted by: I Saw OJ
People who needs over 5gigs of mailbox storage are just pack rats who need to delete emails. Theres really no excuse for that.

I'm pack rat or sorts, but I agree. I have 16 years of archived mail and it comes out to less than 2 gigs- uncompressed.

 

[Joemonkey]

Originally posted by: kt

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: kt
5GB? Only? My company's average is 10+GB per user. That's why we are in the process of implementing an email archiving solution. It's a solution that will satisfy everyone because as far as they know, their emails are still there in their Outlook interface. At the back end, their archived emails are not on the Exchange box but on the archive server. Win, win situation for IT and the rest of the employees. Can't wait to get the budget approved to implement it.

I'm in the same boat.

Have you picked out email archiving solution yet?

We use Legato's Email Xtender, seems to work pretty well

 

[Deviant Grasshopper]

There has to be *some* sort of limit. I typically use 1gb since it forces people the manage their sh!t about once a year. 5gb of email is a LOT of email to have to sort through. You shouldn't have let it get that large IMO

 

[ViviTheMage]

Originally posted by: ironwing
Buy another drive, end problem.

not that easy...

we have 200mb here, on occasion we will up certain users to 300 or so, but we currently have an achiever that saves the mail to there local machine, but if there laptop goes belly up, then they are SOL...they know this too....so they tend to actually delete un-needed email.

 

[Homerboy]

I would push out a policy for Outlook (I assume you're using outlook) that will adjust the auto-archive features for everyone (and possibly lock them out of manually adjusting?)
Before the policy is in place.

Create a office wide policy that all emails older than X months (12? 18? will be auto-deleted and implement it from this day forward).

Note: I didn't read this whole thread. It's Friday. I'm lazy.

 

[sdifox]

This has been an issue for far too long and I am going to scold both sides

IT: deal with it, remember your entire existence is to service the people who do the actual work
Business: stop fucking around with IT, give them the money to buy the hardware needed if you want unlimited mailboxes

 

[KMFJD]

90 mb limit, if you need to have the email longer than that it get's archived by filenet, all emails older than 90 days are deleted.

/Half the company can use pst's, the other half cannot

 

[Aikouka]

Quotas are annoying when they aren't even above 100MB. It gets especially worse when people send you documents and such that are a bit excessive in size .

 

[kt]

Originally posted by: Joemonkey

Originally posted by: kt

Originally posted by: Goosemaster

Originally posted by: kt
5GB? Only? My company's average is 10+GB per user. That's why we are in the process of implementing an email archiving solution. It's a solution that will satisfy everyone because as far as they know, their emails are still there in their Outlook interface. At the back end, their archived emails are not on the Exchange box but on the archive server. Win, win situation for IT and the rest of the employees. Can't wait to get the budget approved to implement it.

I'm in the same boat.

Have you picked out email archiving solution yet?

We use Legato's Email Xtender, seems to work pretty well

That's one of the product we are looking at, too. They are now owned by EMC. Are you using it with Exchange? If so, how many Exchange servers do you have in your environment?

 

[zoiks]

I used to work at Computer Associates a long time ago and my mail quota was 10mb. Normally however that was good enough as the mail would not stay on the server as we had Outlook automatically place it in our local personals folder.

 

[TridenT]

What the fuck can you be sending between eachother that has THAT large of attachments? You guys sharing HD Porno and just don't want to delete any?

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: TridenTBoy3555
What the fuck can you be sending between eachother that has THAT large of attachments? You guys sharing HD Porno and just don't want to delete any?

Many users don't know the difference between a tif and a jpg or which one is more appropriate for email. Also, many, many, many users believe that Reply All is superior in every imaginable way to plain old boring Reply.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: TridenTBoy3555
What the fuck can you be sending between eachother that has THAT large of attachments? You guys sharing HD Porno and just don't want to delete any?

I'd say the average attachment size is around 1 MB and I know there are more than a few thousand of them in my mailbox. How else are you supposed to file things and keep them organized and searchable and you can get results in seconds?

 

[Fingolfin269]

I'm good at getting around our mailbox limit and covering my tracks. Take that you is punks!

(Storage is cheap. Spawn more overlords or something.)