How to Avoid Exceeding Your Exchange Mail File Size Limit

As an ever increasing amount of data is sent and stored in email,
many corporate Microsoft Exchange users are exceeding their Exchange
quotas.  "Your mailbox is over its size limit" often appears at the
most inopportune times, forcing the user to stop whatever they are
doing to prune their inbox or, worse yet, causing them to miss
important messages because they are blocked by the Exchange server.

ClearContext Inbox Manager
can help proactively archive messages to combat this problem.  By
changing the Topic Folder location to a local Personal Folders file and
using our automatic topic filing functionality,
all archived messages will be automatically transferred out of the
Exchange mailbox and into a local file.  Here’s how to do it:

  1. If you do not already have a a local file that you want to store messages in, create one in Outlook via File > New > Outlook Data File…
  2. Mail_limit_config_1By
    default, the ClearContext Topic Folder is created as a sub-folder of
    the default Exchange Inbox during setup.  Change this location under Tools > Options > ClearContext > Configuration by selecting the local file you want to store messages in from the Message Store for ClearContext Topics drop down list box.  Optionally, change the name of the folder here as well.
  3. Click OK on the configuration screen, OK on the restart dialog, and OK on the ClearContext Options screen.
  4. Restart Outlook for your configuration changes to take effect.

Going forward, as you review new email, assign a topic to the
message.  This topic will automatically be assigned to all current and
future messages in that message thread.  When you are ready to move the
message out of the inbox, use the ClearContext Filing buttons to file
the message, message thread, or all messages with the current topic
assigned.  They will be moved from your Exchange file to a
corresponding Topic Folder in the location you have defined in your
local mail file.  In addition, if you enable Sent Message filing, all sent
messages with Topics assigned will automatically be moved from the
Exchange Sent Mail folder to the associated local Topic Folder. 

The end result: you’ll be storing most of your messages locally, in
one place, for easy review and retrieval without the hassle of begging
your Exchange Administrator for more space or emergency message
deletion sessions to keep the mail flowing.

One comment.

  1. FYI – I have updated this post (including video) here:
    http://blog.clearcontext.com/2006/12/video_how_to_av.html