What's a Reasonable Inbox Size?

[Asai]

Thanks for your response,

So, how do those rotation scripts work in concept?

People are still able to access their old inboxes, but it just moves 
them to an archived state?

On 5/7/2020 9:40 AM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
> On 5/7/2020 11:39 AM, Asai wrote:
>> What's a reasonable inbox size?  Is 20+ GB reasonable and nothing to
>> worry about?
>>
> Great question.
>
> At my firm, we wrote rotation tools that work for mbox format to rotate
> inboxes monthly if they are over a certain size.  We also do the sent
> items folders.
>
> We find that large inboxes are bad for the server and bad for the client
> because the MUAs just don't handle it well either.  1 or 2GBs and you
> start to see issues.
>
> After a little bit of user training, they like it.  Part of the routine
> maintenance they need.
>
> Regards,
> KAM
>
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