Replication of Attachments?

[kdeans]

If a user sends an email to a group of ten people within the same mail domain and attaches a 500k file, does Groupwise replicate the attachment ten times? Does this add 5 Mb to the post office or does it replicate it once within the post office and allow those ten users to access it? Is one copy deleted as each user deletes this mail item from their mailbox? If it is only one copy, does it get deleted from the post office when the last person to have a pointer there deletes the related mail item? I am trying to have our users in general be more aware of how much crap they fill our network space with (half a dozen versions of a certain letter or spreadsheet that never get eliminated when the final good version is completed for example). I would like them to post the same attachment to an area of the network shared by those ten and send an email telling the others that it is available and where to get it. Am I saving space?

 

[nolapeck]

I believe it only replicates once(500k) and each email links to the actual file. When each user deletes the email, all he is deleting is the link to the file. When the last person deletes the file, the file is then deleted.

You could restrict the size of user mailboxes, I have seen anywhere from 35-100MB. It all depends on available storage space.

You could set this to 5MB for a day and have it warn everyone that they are over the limit. ;-)


Patrick Curran
Systems Engineer

 

[TheBoySmith]

It does only put one copy in the domain. It then puts a pointer in each users db. Groupwise 6 allows mailbox size restrictions and a wizard to clear it down when it gets full. It is good. Lee Smith
Xenon Network Services
Snr. Technical Support
LSmith@xenon-uk.co.uk