Where can I find evidence of company email mailbox limits?
I worked for a huge company (one of the top 5 largest UK employers) which had ~30,000 email (Lotus Notes) users. Mail file size limit was 75mb, although the auditing was pretty lax. Every now and then there was a blitz and users were reminded of the policy: basically “this is what your business unit has agreed with IT, this is the amount of disk space they’re paying for, here’s how you reduce your mailfile size.” Mainly people just needed educating on using locally stored archives and above all using one of the file servers to share their huge Excel files, rather than bouncing them around in emails. Anyone who didn’t like it was referred to their departmental budget holder, who in almost every case would tell them to put up and shut up (or very rarely, pay for special treatment in terms of extra storage). Can’t you simply notify the departmental heads in your company that disk + backup tape space=money, and the new limit is being introduced for budgetary reasons? Any employees who thin
