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John Goerke * Director of Information Systems * (314) 977-3061

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Oct 21, 1998, 3:00:00 AM10/21/98
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I was curious what other institutions provide as default disk space
amounts for faculty/staff as well as students. We are migrating
currently to an IMAP4/POP3 solution using Netscape as the client; the
mail server is a VMS host. Currently, we allow 2-5MB per user; but are
very quickly discovering that once people get used to and utilize all of
the rich text features that modern mail offers.. the size of the
messages grows exponentially! We were looking at increasing to 30-50MB
per user, but are wondering if that will hold us long... Any thoughts
are certainly appreciated!

John Goerke

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tdm...@okstate.edu

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Oct 22, 1998, 3:00:00 AM10/22/98
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At Oklahoma State University, we are in the process of upgrading our ccMail
base to NotesMail. We have set up limitations with active and archive mail
databases on our systems. For an active NotesMail database, we have a
threshold in place of 25 Mb. At this point the user is given a weekly
notice to archive their mail until they are under 25 Mb. We physically
limit the database at 100 Mb, where they will not receive any email until
the database is archived. We put a fairly high physical limit just in case
of a mail loop they don't have control over. We have allocated 350 Mb of
disk storage for their archive mail database. Once they reach this limit,
we will place their archive mail database on a CD-ROM and set up a new
archive database for them.

We do give out quite a few notices on the active accounts, but users seem
more willing to archive with the additional space. We've only had these
limits in place for about six months, and we plan to evaluate them again in
the spring.

Tina Meier
Manager, Lotus Notes/Domino
Oklahoma State University
tdm...@okstate.edu

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