Re: Counting emails in an inbox

We adopted server based archiving a long time ago, when we turned on
quotas.
We archive every night, so that if the user gets a "quota warning" and
acts on it, their mail file is compacted (and archived) that night and
everything is OK the next day. Performance is fine on our system with a
couple hundred users. We set it and forget it. Only those that ignore the
warning and get the "over quota" message bother calling us now. Only
caveat is that field sales users who use only local replicas never see the
quota messages and happily blow right by them. We might move the archives
to a Windows based system someday.
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Tom Kreimer
Senior AS400 LAN-WAN Network Specialist
Buckhorn Inc, Milford OH
(513)831-4402 x237



Time for server based archiving. No exceptions. x number of days old and

the email goes into archive - All Folders, no such thing as a DoNotArchive

folder.
Benefits:
- That one person (or others too) won't kill the server.
- If you only run your archive process once a week, then why back up the
archive data daily? Could speed up your nightly backups thus reducing
your outage window.
- When someone opens their All Document view their excuse to go jog around

the complex because they are waiting for the view to update is gone.
Con:
- Users have to open the archive data separately. We sent them an email
with a link to their archives and some explanation. Some users were
either too stupid to read, or, it wasn't pertinent to something they were
working on "right now" so they ignored it.
- Some administration to set up.
- Has been the cause of a few pmr's I've opened up with IBM to address
some issues.

Rob Berendt