ChristianR

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anyway of restricting certain invidivials on the size of the attachments they can send to external recipients?

darlodge

This will allow you to limit all users and not individuals
Open up the Exchange Manager and browse down to the SMTP connector, select properties and click on the content restrictions tab and at the bottom is a setting called Allowed Size

I'm still looking to see if there is a setting for individuals

Darren

ChrisB

You can get set a maximum outgoing message size but I can't see a way of only enforcing it on external messages.

David_Wallis

can you set a limit on the users mailbox..??

Dunno with Ex2k..

David

ChristianR

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thanks, yeah i know how to limit everyone, but i just want to either a) limit certain users, or b) limit everyone accept us who need to send big attachments!

ChristianR

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ChrisB - yeah I saw that, only works for internal recipients.

ChrisB

Sorry, to clarify, you can limit on a per user basis but I think it covers internal e-mails.

Puff The Magic Wagon!

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Talking out bum-bum as don't know Ex2000 but you can definately limit either/or/both incoming and outgoing for an indevidual user under (username)mailbox properties/delivery restrictions in Ex5.5

I'll crawl back to the job queue if that is of no benefit to anyone for the purpose of the post...

ChristianR

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in exchange2000 - active directory users & computers -> properties on the user -> Exchange General Tab -> Delivery Restrictions.


To be honest, I don't want a limit on internal sending, just external for select users.

Puff The Magic Wagon!

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I got round that by getting users to send a url to a location on the network (shared not personal ) where the original file was located, not by sending the file itself.

2 reasons

1) Stops mailboxs getting cluttered up with duplicate files all over the place

2) Means that there is only one copy of a worked on file in one known location. Saves confusion in the long run as to which copy is the right one/most up to date.

Worked for us, but I don't know the setup of your place.

ChristianR

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good idea - but wouldn't work here

HHxx

In Exchange, if you sent a attachment to more than one recipient, the server only stores one copy of the message/attachement per server.

H
(H's Useless tips)

Christian, did you sort your problem out. I haven't seen you on msn for ages.

ChristianR

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HHxx - storage is not the problem - just last night a user sent a 3meg attachment to about 300 or so external lists, without going through us - and you can imagine the backlash of this on the internet connection (256k!) - and also addresses include hotmails, and some are wrong etc - so getting loads of rejected ones - aghhh!!


HHxx - which problem was it again? have had so many - but all seem to be sorted