Unless things have changed drastically since Exchange 2007, which was the last I put my hands on, Exchange still has performance problems with large mailboxes, particularly if there are a lot of them.
You can do some good by spreading out the mailboxes on different mailstores. But only a bit. As far as quotas go -- this situation can cut both ways. At $previousjob we had to absolutely retain every e-mail received by corporate officers for years. At $currentjob, we don't have the same kind of auditing requirements or laws, and thus are actually required by our legal department to purge mail after 6 months. The fact is that just keeping the mail is a liability since it can be released during discovery, so if the policy is "we don't retain mail," it makes it much easier for the company to deal with/respond to lawsuits. -Eric On Thursday, May 19, 2011 at 11:54 AM, [email protected] wrote: > I know my personal mailbox exceeds 2GB/5K items by quite a lot, and I'd > be /pissed/ if you said "ignore all this other work you are > doing and clean out your mailbox" > > I think that you should figure out what your mailserver can handle > and how you can increase that number. Then bring it to management. > "If things keep going how they are going, we will have serious problems > with the mailserver. Either you need to spend X dollars and Y time > upgrading the mailserver, or you need to limit each person to Z quota > size." > > Let management decide, and then let management handle the backlash. > this is management's job. > > I mean, if I was your boss, I'd say upgrade rather than add quotas. > Hell, ram is cheap these days. I'd shard out the mail server on a bunch > of those dual socket G34 opterons with 24 ram slots (fill 'em with 8GiB > modules!) and give it 2GiB ram for every user, if required. Compared to > what people cost, it's cheap. (of course, I'm not a MS guy; I have no > idea how well windows handles that much pagecache, or if windows would even > recognise that much ram.) _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
