Clamping down on mailbox sizes...

SH Development listaccount at starionline.com
Wed Jan 25 00:57:37 UTC 2017


In that scenario, what actually happens?  Does mail get stored?  Or rejected?  Or delayed?

Jeff


> On Jan 24, 2017, at 6:54 PM, Roger Klorese <rogerklorese at gmail.com <mailto:rogerklorese at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> I'd take the opposite approach and tell them no new mail will be received until they are under quota. 
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 4:52 PM SH Development <listaccount at starionline.com <mailto:listaccount at starionline.com>> wrote:
> I don’t want to do this for all users….but…
> 
> I have a few users who insist that they use their mailboxes regularly and don’t want it cancelled.  Fine.  But they won’t clean them out either.
> 
> What steps would you all recommend for setting quotas on some users but not others?
> 
> Specifically starting out with identifying WHICH accounts have excessive amounts of crap in them, by age, then sending them a notice stating they are going to get limited, then deleting mail older than x number of days if they don’t do it themselves by a certain time frame...
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Jeff



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