Questions tagged [mailbox]
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Running rules on a mailbox?
I'm trying to run some smartsieve rules on a IMAP mailbox, I can certainly do this for mails that are delivered to that mailbox, but for emails that are already in that mailbox, or ones that a moved to it (via thunderbird/outlook) the rules are not…

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Removing user mailboxes in Exchange Server
I am trying to remove several user's mailboxes in the Exchange Server. Exchange Server is on a member server (OS: Window Server 2003). When I try to remove the Administrator mailbox, it says this:
Note: I had to censor my windows server name…

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Limit # of messages in mailbox
I have a situation where users have an average of 20 to 30,000 emails in their inbox. We are adding more employees and mailboxes and this is getting out of control.
I have limited each mailbox to 1GB total however most of the time because these…

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Switching over an email address from a distribution group to a user account in Exchange 2003
I'm currently in a transition mode. We currently have a Distribution Group called Quotes and Orders that send out emails to several users. I'm told that a better method would be to create a user and then give access to that fictitious user's email…

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Exchange mailboxes are reaching their limit what can I do?
I have an exchange server which has mailboxes that are over 68GB, I understand that the maximum size of mailboxes is only 75GB which we expect to pass in the very near future. What can I do about this?
I have another license of exchange that I could…

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How to move Mailboxes over from old Exchange 2007 to new EBS 2008 network?
This q is similar to: How to move Exchange 2003 mailbox or store from 2003 to 2007 on separate networks?
Basically I am trying to move our exchange mailboxes over to a test domain that is hosting EBS2008 with Exchange 2007. We plan to move as soon…

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IMAP Server Autodiscovery
I recently got a VPS and want to start using it to host my websites instead of the Shared Hosting packages that i'm using.
Question 1: Is it possible to setup Autodiscovery for the IMAP configurations?
Most of my users are Microsoft Office Outlook…
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Office365: Error trying to create Inbox Rule via PowerShell
In our Office365 environment I'm trying to programmatically create rules that will move incoming messages based on the distribution list they were received as.
However, while prototyping, the following command consistently creates an…

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What are the ramifications of corrupted/lost index files in Dovecot's dbox storage format?
The Dovecot documentation for the dbox storage format gives a couple dire-sounding warnings about corrupted or lost index files:
One of the main reasons for dbox's high performance is that it uses Dovecot's index files as the only storage for…

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Postfix isn't delivering Mails only to one specific user
Our Mailsystem includes a Postfix, openLDAP and Cyrus. All run smoothly till last week. When I created a new Mailbox for a user who before had only an Alias with an forwarding external Mailadress. To this new Mailbox the Emails aren't delivered.…

Sylvia Gelman
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Office 365 Exchange automatically delete deleted items
How would I automatically delete email older than one week in deleted items folder? I have access to the mailbox through OWA. Would this be done using a Rule, Retention Policy or Archiving? Setting up a Rule or Retention Policy appears to only…

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Office 365 Mailbox of unlicensed user
I'm trying to find any softdeleted mailbox that may be in the recycle bin, due to the licence removal (office or Exchange).
Initialy I used Get-Mailbox -SoftDeletedMailbox but the results where null
After this disappointing result I did Get-MsolUser…

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Move email addresses to company domain
My current setup is Exchange 2010 and I have 4 different organisational units setup. We have a number of users spread across these organisational units. We would like to now move to a single domain/organisational unit lets call it…

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Create custom mailboxes with dovecot
I'm trying to setup dovecot + sieve plugin. I'm suing the Maildir format. I use Thunderbird to read the emails so i don't need a webmail on my server. The basic config works fine but now I want to add some rules in sieve to redirect some mails, like…

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Exchange 2013 -> 2016 Move Requests Stuck
I'm trying to migrate users from Exchange 2013 to Exchange 2016 but when I create a move request, even with only 1 mailbox in the queue, with a size of a few kilobytes, it'll inevitably end up at RelinquishedWlmStall.
There are no performance issues…

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