Safe Mailbox Size

[danvant]

Hi Guys,

I have a client that has exchange 2000 and a few of the mailboxes are getting large, lets say around 2.5 - 3gb, what is a safe size for exchange mailboxes and would it be better to archive files off to pst, and backup the pst file as well.

Any help much appreciated,

 

[buddafish]

danvant,

mailbox size is very subjective but those are huge. we try and encourage our users to archive items older than 1 month, move pics, spreadsheets, powerpoints,ect off the mail server and to a network file server. as for limits, we use 50,000k as the base limit, 60, then 70 before no send / receive... needless to say, we still need to contact some users every month or so and ask them to clean it up...

scottie