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by mmouser

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I'm having email storage problems. Several users are mail pack rats. I have a couple with PSTs approaching 2GB and still have around 300MB in their Exchange box. Does anyone know a way to automatically remove attachments from items as they are stored in the sent items folder? i.e. A user sends a message with an attachemet. I want the email to go out with the attachment but I want the copy stored in the sent items to remove the attachment.

Any thoughts??

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by purple713

I have ran into this problem as well so I hope this helps.
Best way to approach this issue is to create Personal Folders so that they are stored on the Hard Drive and not on the server. (If the users hard drive is partitioned, store it on the second partition.) Also set up a size limit on the email. Once they reached the limit they will have to move or delete messages to the personal folder. This will fill up their hard drive forces them to delete some of those messages. Make sure they are cleaning out the Deleted items folder and the Sent items folder on the Server side as well.

by shanghai sam

Thanks for the input. I already have the PST situation and I'm trying to get rid of that. The issue is with those PST files getting too big. If a PST file gets to be over 2GB it will become corrupted. I want to automate the removed of the attachments.

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