Setting Mailbox Capacity Limits

Using the Management Console , you can define a default mailbox capacity limit at the user, server and global levels. In addition, you can control the type and frequency of warnings that users get when they exceed that capacity.

Note	Scalix recommends setting all preferences at a global level in a multiple-server environment, at which time you can override this limit at the individual user account level. For example, if all your users have a 100 MB capacity limit, you can easily grant the CEO a gigabyte of capacity.

Setting a system limit

To set a global system limit:

1. In the toolbar, click the Settings button.
2. In the contents pane, select the server for which you want to set a limit. (Or, if you want to modify all the servers in your Scalix system, select the Global listing.
3. When the server's options appear in the display pane, click the Mail tab.
4. In the Mailbox Limits options, click in the Maximum Mailbox Size text field and type a number representing megabytes of data.
5. Click the checkboxes by the alert responses you want to activate.
• If you check “Send warning on outgoing mail ...”, fill in the subfields with the percentage point at which you want automated warnings sent and mail rejected. Then type a message to describe what will happen when an Inbox is full of incoming and outgoing mail.
6. In the field titled, "Send Warnings every ...", type the number of days between the automated alerts.
7. Click the now-active Save Changes button at the bottom of the display pane.

Note	Remember that you can override these settings for individual system users—as described in the next section.

Setting limits on individual user's mailboxes

To set a limit on an individual mailbox:

1. In the toolbar, click the Users button.
2. In the contents pane, select the account for which you want to set individual limits.
3. When the user's options appear in the display pane to the right, click the Advanced tab.
4. In the area of the display pane labelled Mailbox Limits options, click in the Maximum Mailbox Size text field and type a number representing megabytes of data.
5. Click the checkboxes by the alert responses you want to activate.
6. Click the now-active Save Changes button at the bottom of the display pane.
7. This new limit overrides any general server-wide setting.

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