Slightly off-topic question but very useful one

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Samuel Luxford-Watts wrote:
> ... 10Mb mailfile size and 500Mb mailbox size... And its still regularly a
> problem with our users!
wow...the mailbox size is huge!  What users are these? (staff, 
students?)  The only time I had to deal with a few users that needed 
mailbox sizes of 1 or 1.5GB is for engineers.  They had a lot of 
drawings they sent back and forth to each other....they also needed to 
keep the emails for a few years!  But this situation is very rare!



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Howell [mailto:jwh2 at cornell.edu] 
> Sent: 24 October 2003 15:03
> To: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> Subject: Slightly off-topic question but very useful one
> 
> 
> Hi,
>          I apologize for this off-topic question but I think we will all 
> find this useful.  What mailfile size limits do folks support and the user 
> mailbox quota size?  We are being told by some of our users that we are too 
> restrictive.  Here at Cornell we allow 15MB mailfiles from 8am to 6pm and 
> 100MB mailfiles from 6pm to 8am.  We also give our users a 200MB mailbox 
> quota.  Please respond directly to me and I'll be happy to summawize for 
> the list.  Thanks.
> Jim
> 
> 
> Jim Howell
> CIT Messaging Systems Manager
> Cornell University
> 728 Rhodes Hall
> Email: jwh2 at cornell.edu
> Phone: 607-255-9369 
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