# Mailbox size **URL:** \ **Category:** Chatting over the Back Fence\ **Created:** [November 3, 2014, 6:03pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mailbox-size/26301 "2014-11-03T18:03:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![System1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/51bf81/32.png) [@System1](https://forums.suse.com/u/System1)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 6:03pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mailbox-size/26301/1 "2014-11-03T18:03:15Z")
Just venting here. So my boss’s boss is an email fiend apparently. Currently his mailbox contains almost 64,000 inbox items, over 21,000 sent items and is almost 30.5GB in size. …… – Stevo ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 7:12pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mailbox-size/26301/2 "2014-11-03T19:12:32Z")
On Mon, 03 Nov 2014 16:03:15 GMT, “Stevo” [steveSPAM@LESSccgov.net](mailto:steveSPAM@LESSccgov.net) wrote: [color=blue] > Just venting here. So my boss’s boss is an email fiend apparently. > Currently his mailbox contains almost 64,000 inbox items, over 21,000 > sent items and is almost 30.5GB in size. > > ……[/color] Last time I checked…over a year ago…I had two users with 55 GB and three with 40 to 45 GB mailboxes. Maybe I can get an archive solution approved for 2015. Ken ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 7:15pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mailbox-size/26301/3 "2014-11-03T19:15:43Z")
KeN Etter sounds like they ‘said’: [color=blue] > Last time I checked…over a year ago…I had two users with 55 GB and > three with 40 to 45 GB mailboxes. > > Maybe I can get an archive solution approved for 2015. > > Ken[/color] So my response to KeN’s comment is… Yikes! I would really like to set up a quota on my users with large mailboxes, at least force them to clean some stuff up. – Stevo ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 11:23pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mailbox-size/26301/4 "2014-11-03T23:23:26Z")
Am 03.11.2014 09:03, schrieb Stevo:[color=blue] > Just venting here. So my boss’s boss is an email fiend apparently. > Currently his mailbox contains almost 64,000 inbox items, over 21,000 > sent items and is almost 30.5GB in size. > > …… > [/color] > HIs mailbox is tiny compared to mine.What’s the problem? 😉 ## CU, Massimo Rosen Novell Knowledge Partner No emails please! [http://www.cfc-it.de](http://www.cfc-it.de) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 11:29pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mailbox-size/26301/5 "2014-11-03T23:29:55Z")
Massimo Rosen sounds like they ‘said’: [color=blue] > HIs mailbox is tiny compared to mine.What’s the problem? ;)[/color] So my response to Massimo’s comment is… I just don’t like having people here with _that_ much email sitting around. He probably has 10k to 20k emails that have never been read I would guess. Granted, he’s pretty high up the ‘food chain’ here, and he gets cc’d in on pretty much _everything_ that goes on. – Stevo ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2014, 11:41pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mailbox-size/26301/6 "2014-11-03T23:41:25Z")
Am 03.11.2014 14:29, schrieb Stevo:[color=blue] > Massimo Rosen sounds like they ‘said’: > [color=green] > > > HIs mailbox is tiny compared to mine.What’s the problem? ;)[/color] > > So my response to Massimo’s comment is… > > I just don’t like having people here with _that_ much email sitting > around.[/color] But why not? I _love_ the fact that I still have absolutely instant access to every single email (I didn’t delete) since 1999 in my mailbox. [color=blue] > He probably has 10k to 20k emails that have never been read I > would guess.[/color] Maybe, maybe not. Of course, 90% of all files in worldwide filesytems have been written and never read again. That’s a fact of life. [color=blue] > Granted, he’s pretty high up the ‘food chain’ here, and he gets cc’d in > on pretty much _everything_ that goes on.[/color] Mails he got CC’d on don’t really take up any noticeably space in the system anyways… My point is: Groupwise is most easily the most scalable collaboration system existing. It simply doesn’t really care about mailbox sizes. ## CU, Massimo Rosen Novell Knowledge Partner No emails please! [http://www.cfc-it.de](http://www.cfc-it.de) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 2:18pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mailbox-size/26301/7 "2014-11-04T14:18:43Z")
Stevo: If he’s high on the food chain, leave him be. He probably decided a long time ago that his time was better spent doing things other than deleting emails, and it probably is. When it comes time to getting more disk space, just do a list of all of the sizes of the largest email boxes, without names adjacent to them, and use it as justification. Chances are the ones with the largest boxes will be publicly outraged that some people hog up all that space, but if they are privately/discreetly informed that their own box is among those listed, will help get the approval through for the additional space. LOL 🙂 – Susan Novell Community Chat Moderator [http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq\_rules](http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq_rules) [http://www.ncci.org](http://www.ncci.org) NCCIrregulars Web Site [https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars](https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars) Please read the following before posting in here: [http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy](http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 4:44pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mailbox-size/26301/8 "2014-11-04T16:44:41Z")
Susan sounds like they ‘said’: [color=blue] > When it comes time to getting more disk space, just do a list of all > of the sizes of the largest email boxes, without names adjacent to > them, and use it as justification. Chances are the ones with the > largest boxes will be publicly outraged that some people hog up all > that space, but if they are privately/discreetly informed that their > own box is among those listed, will help get the approval through for > the additional space. LOL :)[/color] So my response to Susan’s comment is… Oh he knows he’s got the largest mailbox here, he just gets cc’d in on _everything_, and as busy as he is, apparently doesn’t have time to go through them all on any kind of regular basis. – Stevo ---
**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/suse/original/2X/5/5012ba89e3ffb5220dac47d5ea0ba032e2fe1cb6.png) [@system](https://forums.suse.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2014, 7:22pm UTC](https://forums.suse.com/t/mailbox-size/26301/9 "2014-11-04T19:22:57Z")
Stevo: If he knows, all the more reason to just leave him be. Have you tried offering to delete all the unread ones prior to a certain date for him? That might work, unless he’s saving them to prove that he never read them. 🙂 – Susan Novell Community Chat Moderator [http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq\_rules](http://forums.novell.com/faq.php?faq=novfor#faq_rules) [http://www.ncci.org](http://www.ncci.org) NCCIrregulars Web Site [https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars](https://www.facebook.com/groups/NCCIrregulars) Please read the following before posting in here: [http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy](http://preview.tinyurl.com/27zopdy)