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What Corporate Email Limits Do You Have?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the drives-that-are-bursting-at-the-seams dept.

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."

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  1. Re:For God's sake by StarvingSE · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I could be wrong, but it sounds like the 420 GB is what is shared between all users for storage (roughly 1.3 GB per user if it was distributed evenly).

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  2. Re:For God's sake by Alex+P+Keaton+in+da · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Look before you leap- Maybe they work somewhere they are required to save all their email (You may not yet be high enough on the corporate ladder to understand why, but it could have to do with Sarbanes Oxley).
    Using GMail would be bad for a few reasons- one, it is unprof. to have a free email account for business purposes. And, once again, regulations may require them to keep emails indefinately, and as such they may want/need control over the server.

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  3. Re:Education by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Hence the suggestion for personal use.