Hi Ian, 1.) Create a guide on how to properly manage email: - We encourage users to save their emails with large attachments (over 1MB) to their personal mapped drive to the file server, and then delete them from their Exchange mailbox. -We encourage users to create an archive PST file and save it to their personal mapped drive on the file server, and archive old emails to their PST, not their Exchange mailbox. -Outline with pretty screenshots how to do all of the above. -Encourage users to perform monthly maintenance to improve system efficiency, their productivity, and decrease the costs associated with an extremely large mail DB. 2.) Educate users on why their are limits: -It's typically *estimated* (from an MSDN Exchange Blogger) that it will take one hour per GB to restore your Exchange DB. So, for example, if someone *thinks* they should have a 500MB limit, tell them that they can explain to the president why he can't access his email for that extra 30 mins. :D 3) Set a reasonable level on the max. size of emails including attachments This should give you a good start. ...D ----- Original Message ----- From: ian.dobson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <ian.dobson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 12:21:20 +0100 Subject: [exchangelist] Limits To: "[ExchangeList]" <exchangelist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.MSExchange.org/ Gents, I am trying to get our business to reduce email send size limits at the moment and wondered if there was any best practice sizes that you would recommend. Any input would be appreciated. Thanks Ian