Managing Post Offices
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12.3.3 Enforcing Mailbox Size Limits
If existing GroupWise users are having difficulty fitting their mailboxes into the established mailbox
size limits, you can assist them by reducing their mailboxes for them. Users should be warned before
this action is taken.
1
In ConsoleOne, select a Post Office object.
2
Click
Tools
>
GroupWise Utilities
>
Mailbox/Library Maintenance
.
3
In the
Action
field, select
Expire/Reduce
.
4
Set the
Expire
and
Reduce
options as desired, making sure that
Reduce Mailbox to Limited Size
is selected.
5
Click
Run
, then click
OK
to acknowledge that the Mailbox/Library Maintenance task has been
sent to the POA.
After the POA has performed the task, users mailboxes fit within the mailbox size limit you
have established.
6
Repeat
Step 1
through
Step 5
for each post office where you want to reduce user mailboxes to
the established mailbox size limit.
See “
Using Mailbox Storage Size Information
” in “
Managing Your Mailbox
” in the
GroupWise 7
Windows Client User Guide
to see how setting a mailbox size limit affects user activities in the
GroupWise client.
12.3.4 Restricting the Size of Messages That Users Can Send
By restricting message size, you can influence how fast user mailboxes fill up. However, if users
have valid reasons for sending messages that exceed this limit, the limit can become a hindrance to
users getting their work done.
For HTML-formatted messages, the MIME portion of the message counts in the message size.
MIME files can be large. If a user cannot send an HTML-formatted message, he or she could use
