What Corporate Email Limits Do You Have?

roundisfunny wonders: "We currently do not have any mailbox restrictions for our Exchange users - which has led us to have a 420 GB mail store for 320 users. Our largest mailbox has over 13 GB in it. One of the main concerns for us is the time it takes for a restore. We have encouraged archiving, but now have 250 GB of .pst files. What sort of limitations does your company have on mailbox size, amount of time you can keep mail, and archives? Please mention your email platform, type of business, and number of users."

Our setup

[Anonymous Coward]

We're limited to 10MB attachment/message. Attachments can't be executable or compressed volumes containing executable files. Other than that we aren't really limited. (There is a cap on how large my mailboxes can be on the server, but they they increase the space regularly so I've never actually cared to pay attention to the cap.) As I understand it, I'm expected to leave all of my e-mail their forever and not worry about deleting.

Type of Business: Work from Home
Number of Users: 1
E-Mail Platform: GMail

Company Limits

[Anonymous Coward]

My companies Policies and Procedures Manual explicitly states that at all times our personal Inbox must contain no more than ten (10) emails regarding penis enlargement, twenty-five (25) advertisements for prescription drugs, and seventy (70) CVS or Subversion commit messages. Users found to be in violation are fined $1 per message over the limit and will have every piece of email sent to their account during an eight (8) hour period broadcast to the entire company.

Just 25 for us

[TheOtherChimeraTwin]

We have a limit of exactl

Windows NT Days...

[__aaclcg7560]

I remember one incident at a Fujitsu division when my co-worker was instructed to send a 36MB core dump file by email to our supervisor. For whatever reason, he accidentally sent the email to everyone in the division (~1200 people). Needless to say, the Windows NT email server keeled over and the administrator spent three days removing every copy of the core file from each account. It was no surprise that my co-worker was let go when a round of layoffs came. But, very surprisingly, he was hired back the administrator to work in the IT department. Go figure.

Re:2GB

[nizo]

The best part of our company is the people with over 4,000 emails in their "Deleted Items" folder, since they dont understand the concept of the "Deleted" part.

One day I was helping a secretary clean up her old email (before migrating her to Thunderbird actually) and went to empty her Trash folder. She went nuts and said, "Wait, there is stuff in there I want". Turns out she had hundreds of email messages in dozens of folders and sub folders in her Trash folder, neatly organizing a bunch of mail she wanted to keep. Apparently she had been filing things in her Trash folder for years.

I should remember this when I organize my paper files; I could just put them in folders and then put them in the little box next to my desk labelled "Trash" and they will magically get filed for me every evening.

Re:None.

[pintomp3]

so.. you work at hotmail?

Re:2GB

[MarkGriz]

"Apparently she had been filing things in her Trash folder for years."

Not that unusual really. I file most memos from my boss in the trash. Doesn't everyone?

Re:Windows NT Days...

[dotgain]

...my co-worker was instructed to send a 36MB core dump file by email to our supervisor. For whatever reason, he accidentally sent the email to everyone in the division ... my co-worker was let go when a round of layoffs came. But, very surprisingly, he was hired back the administrator to work in the IT department.

Appropriate punishment.

Re:Nope

[missing000]

Ye gads, I just realized that I'm in the Exchange Tech Speaker group. Not exactly my finest hour, but I digress. (Do I get some sort of a fan club membership or something? Maybe an anti-penguin jacket or cap?)

I do think you'll find that exchange uses SIS to limit the number of replications of a particular message, not it's attachemnts. Changing this would be a welcome change, but for now forwarding = new message = replication.

As stated, SIS does limit this to 1 instance per message per storage group, but most large sites have tons of storage groups with users almost randomly peppered across them. Your chances of finding a large group you mail in one of these environments all on one store are quite small.

Re:2GB

[Anonymous Coward]

The end of your employment, you mean?

Re:Lots of users, small mailboxes

[Anonymous Coward]

The company I work at, BestBuy, ... Feel free to ask questions.

OK, why does your company appear to be a bunch of asshats? Just go to any consumer site, and the comlaints about Worst Buy are legendary, possibly even worse than those about Fry's.