Do you have an acceptable use policy? Is it actually enforceable? The first thing I would do is start blocking those attachment types. I can imagine that most of them are AVI, MPG, MP3, WMV, Etc. In most businesses those server little or no business purpose of any kind. You also need to use attachment size restrictions.
-----Original Message----- From: Peter White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 9:06 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Tracking email use to save bandwidth Hi, I hope somebody can help us out. We have Exchange 5.5 sp4 and about 100 users in three geographical locations. Our problem is that some of our users regard the company email as their own personal amusement center and frequently cc emails with large attachments to 25 or more of their personal internet email buddies. We have only a 512k internet connection and this heavy non-business email traffic slows our legitimate site-to-site communication to a crawl. I feel sure that just a few users are really abusing the system and I'd like to find out who they are. I don't want to penalize everyone in the company because of a few ignorant users who abuse the system. Can I track which users are sending attachements, how big the attachments are and how many people they are ccing to? If I can get that info I can deal with the abusers without stepping on email for everyone in the company. thanks Peter White _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang =english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
