As Tony says, search under Single Instance Storage (aka SIS) for the techie explanation.
In the case your friend cites, he's wrong. What will happen is that your mail gets sent to 1000 people, and there is one copy of it. Now if one of them opens that mail and annotates it with their thoughts on what you said, and then saves it, then the server will hold one copy of his altered mail for him and 1 other copy for the other 999 people. -- Robert Moir Microsoft MVP Senior IT Systems Engineer Luton Sixth Form College RM Eunt Domus > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 14 December 2003 10:55 > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: Impact of sending attachment to many recipients? > > > Hi, > > Let's say a user sends a 1Mb attachment by email to 1000 > people, does it add 1000Mb to the Exchange Database? > > I put out a post like this before & the replies were negative. > > But now a friend pointed out that a recipient who has a > mailbox on the Exchange Server could for example open this > email & change it. > > Then save it (i.e. the email was changed). > > So he's saying that this shows that each person gets their > personal copy of the email. > > Therefore, the 1Mb attachment in the email to 1000 people > DOES increase the Exchange Database size by 1000Mb. > > Pls. can you shed some light on this discussion for us? > > I'd appreciate some official article from Microsoft (e.g. > Technet) to prove my point. > > Help!!!!! > > Thanks in advance. > > Pls. Cc all replies to me on: [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&t ext_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]
