Mail box Limits

The 2gb size is the limit for pst and ost files. Exchange limit recommendations from ms can be seen here (for exchange 2000):

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;319583

Cheers.

RW

It really depends on how beefy your server is, how many mailboxes are on it, and how fast your information store is growing. I limit my users to 30MB. Many companies have unlimited mailbox sizes, but that's a hell of a nightmare and I don't recommend it. For a small organization (under 150 users) with a fairly beefy dedicated Exchange server, you could probably do 1GB without too much trouble.

The larger the mailbox, the slower any mail operations will be. Since my #1 complaint from users is response time, I'm draconian about my limits - but I have 2500 mailboxes, too.