This company's email system has a 200 MB limit for mailboxes -- but not for the "deleted items" folder, says a pilot fish tasked with saving space on the system."More than one person had set up elaborately nested folders in their deleted items where they happily had 5 or 6 GB of mail," fish says."They had heart attacks when we said we were going to automatically dump anything in there more than two weeks old. We had meetings, conference calls and anguished emails all waiting for us the next day."In the end, we had to give classes in how to set up actual archiving, and then had to manually move their data for them before we could finally empty the trash."It took weeks -- weeks while almost every day their e-mail system would run out of space again and start rejecting in-bound mail."Didja like this story from the Sharkives? Tell Sharky your own true tale of IT life at Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein!. You'll get a stylish Shark shirt if I use it. Comment on today's tale at Sharky's Google+ community, and read thousands of great old tales in the Sharkives.Get Sharky's outtakes from the IT Theater of the Absurd delivered directly to your Inbox. Subscribe now to the Daily Shark Newsletter.

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