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Exchange 2003 - SMTP quota

Author
25 Sep 2008 7:33 PM
Adam Simmonds (SimAda00)
Hello

Is it possible for me to place a quota restriction on to specifc users, to
limit how many outbound (external via our smtp connector) messages can be
sent per day.

As the connector this particualar user is configured to use has a limit on
how many messages we cant send through it per day, and i want to place
reasonable limits on users, so that one user doesnt 'hog' all our messaging
capacity on the connector

Adam
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Author
25 Sep 2008 8:14 PM
Mark Arnold [MVP]
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:33:06 -0700, Adam Simmonds (SimAda00)
<AdamSimmondsSimAd***@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hello
>
>Is it possible for me to place a quota restriction on to specifc users, to
>limit how many outbound (external via our smtp connector) messages can be
>sent per day.
>
>As the connector this particualar user is configured to use has a limit on
>how many messages we cant send through it per day, and i want to place
>reasonable limits on users, so that one user doesnt 'hog' all our messaging
>capacity on the connector
>
>Adam

No, you can't put a quota on like that. If that person is doing his
job then it's tough, buy bandwidth to cope with him. If that person is
sending email outside of his job function then it's an administrative
action (sack him, kick him, whatever) you need to deal with.

You can use Routing Group Connectors to have a default one (you may
have one in place or you may need to create one or two) reject
messages from him and another one reject messages from everyone else
(or only accept from him obviously). You'd then put hour/size
restrictions on it.

But you can't tell Exchange to accept only the first 100 messages per
day from him and reject the rest.

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