vacation mailboxes
if someone goes on vacation their mailbox will fill up and people will start getting the 'user mailbox full' message back. how can i stop this from happening and allow the user to keep getting emails until they get back from vacation? disabling the user's account or increasing limits is not an acceptable alternative.exchange 2003
July 20th, 2009 9:03pm

HI, per my knowledge can hold all pending emails on your queue of relay server via increasing time. that will help to avoid receive NDR messages to senders.RegardsChinthaka
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July 20th, 2009 10:13pm

HI, per my knowledge can hold all pending emails on your queue of relay server via increasing time. that will help to avoid receive NDR messages to senders.Regards Chinthaka can this be done on a per user basis, or only a per server basis? what i really need is an option to set the user to something like 'accept emails over limit and don't send NDR message until.....' with options of size and/or date.how do admins normally deal with vacations/leaves?
July 21st, 2009 12:31am

Normally, we should ask users to set OOF (Out Of Office) on the outlook/OWA before leaving. So senders won't keep sending mails to the OOF users. The new feature in the exchange 2010, so called MailTip, which can tell the sender whether the recipients are on the vacation or not before the sender hit the send button
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July 21st, 2009 12:00pm

Rather than changing the settings to avoid NDR messages on server just for one reason it is always better to temp increase the Mailbox Size of user on vacation and then revert it back once he is back. Vinod |CCNA|MCSE 2003 +Messaging|MCTS|ITIL V3|
July 21st, 2009 12:48pm

they set their OO messages. these people are on distribution lists and automated reports. they get emails regardless. some emails they need to get and read when they get back, so i don't want to disable their accounts (which is not a good idea anyway). we're a small business limited on space and can't afford the expense of an Enterprise version of exchange.i don't want to have to create an administrative nightmare having to change and keep track of limits and vacations for 100s of people and worry that they're reset at the right time. it sounds and feels like a klugie way to get around an inadequacy in exchange.
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July 21st, 2009 3:31pm

What are the user mailbox size limits set to? If they are quite small, and the possibility of mail filling them is high, you could direct these users to archive mail to a .PST before going on vacation, to reduce the overall size of their mailbox. I know PST's are evil, but it seems like the only option for the scenario you give. :)Jason
July 21st, 2009 5:47pm

What are the user mailbox size limits set to? If they are quite small, and the possibility of mail filling them is high, you could direct these users to archive mail to a .PST before going on vacation, to reduce the overall size of their mailbox. I know PST's are evil, but it seems like the only option for the scenario you give. :)Jason limits are 70MB. most of these people use thin clients and don't have a local area to save PSTs. Besides, Backup Exec chokes on open PSTs, stops the backup job and sends out 'job failure' emails. a simple(?) option in OO to set 'im on vacation (until...), send OO message but do not send out mailbox full messages' might work. or an option to accept only messages from certain people or groups while on vacation until....
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July 21st, 2009 6:15pm

Wow, yea those are quite small mailbox limits (ours range from 250MB on the low-end to 1GB high-end). We save PST's on the network (yea yea, it's not recommended/supported, but it's that or lose the data in a HD crash) so we can back it up nightly. Users know thatPST'swon't get backed up if they leave Outlook open, and the onus is on them if their PST goes boom and we don't have a good backup due to their leaving Outlook open. Of course this does not work in all environments (politics, etc). As for the options you mention, I don't know if any of that is possible. Perhaps, but certainly not without quite a bit of effort if I had to guess.Jason
July 21st, 2009 8:09pm

Save received mails into PST file is a good option, or you can redirect all mails to another account (mailbox or public folder) until the users back How to configure a mailbox to forward mail to a mail-enabled contact
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July 22nd, 2009 4:37am

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