How to get old setting for mailbox full warning

[Guest]

In Outlook 2000, when my mailbox was full, when I hit SEND on a message, it
would display a window saying that my mailbox was full blah blah. Now, with
Outlook 2003, it allows me to click send and then a few minutes later a get a
message from the Sys Admin that my message was not sent. It is very annoying.
How can I set it back so that it warns me before I hit the SEND button?

 

[Vanguard \(NPI\)]

In Outlook 2000, when my mailbox was full, when I hit SEND on a message,
it
would display a window saying that my mailbox was full blah blah. Now,
with
Outlook 2003, it allows me to click send and then a few minutes later a
get a
message from the Sys Admin that my message was not sent. It is very
annoying.
How can I set it back so that it warns me before I hit the SEND button?

It's not YOUR mailbox that is full. It is your recipient's mailbox that is
full.

 

[Guest]

Nope. I am sure it is my mailbox that is full. I've copied and pasted the
error below:
"The message failed to be submitted because the storage limit for the
mailbox that is submitting the message has been exceeded."
Any help would be great.
Thanks
Aarti.

 

[Noel All]

One reason why you could be seeing the delay is that Outlook 2003 has a
cached mode setting, if you change from cache to non cache then the message
may appear a lot quicker.

 

[Vanguard \(NPI\)]

Nope. I am sure it is my mailbox that is full. I've copied and pasted the
error below:
"The message failed to be submitted because the storage limit for the
mailbox that is submitting the message has been exceeded."

If YOUR mailbox were full, you would get an immediate error status back from
your mail server to which you are connecting that would reject your mail
session. If your mail server was poorly setup, I suppose it is possible
that your mail server batches up the message and then checks later and then
errors and sends back an NDR (non-delivery report).

You can check the Received headers in the e-mail to see who sent it: your
mail server or the recipient's mail server.

Perhaps you have an option enabled that keeps a copy of your sent items in
your server-side mailbox. I've only seen this when using the webmail
interface; i.e., it is an option for when using the webmail interface to
save a copy of your message (and does not apply when using your own local
e-mail client to send out through their SMTP server since the copy is save
in your local e-mail client's Sent Items folder). So go into your options
to disable the default of saving a copy of your sent messages in your Sent
Items folder in your server-side mailbox.

Obviously if you think it is your mailbox that is full, why not just use
their webmail interface to clean out the garbage?

That error is poorly worded. It could also be that you have exceeded your
daily or monthly bandwidth quota. My personal e-mail account with my ISP
has a daily quota of 10GB. That's a hell of a lot of spewage per day and I
would prefer they lower that to help thwart the spam getting spewed out by
the zombied customers.

 

[Vanguard \(NPI\)]

One reason why you could be seeing the delay is that Outlook 2003 has a
cached mode setting, if you change from cache to non cache then the
message may appear a lot quicker.
"FrustratedInChicago" <[email protected]>
wrote in message

"Cached Exchange Mode" is only available when an Exchange-type account is
defined within Outlook. That is, it only works when using MS Exchange as
your mail server. The OP never divulged what type of mail server he/she
uses. I doubt that cached mode with the Exchange server would result in
NDRs (new mails sent outside of the user's mail session).

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=821299

Mine was already set to download full items, so it either comes this way by
default for the install or someone already changed it for me (like the
admins).

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=822508

Except that the OP says they get an NDR sent *later* which sounds like it
was an NDR sent by the receiving mail server, not from the OP's own sending
mail server. Looking at the headers might help (if there are no headers
then it was the sender's own Exchange server sending the NDR).

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=870926

Provides some info on Cached Exchange Mode. The OP could do his/her own
search to find other possibly related KB articles by going to
http://support.microsoft.com, advanced search, pick "Outlook 2003", and
enter the text of the error message that he/she gets.

 

[Noel All]

The error message is an Exchange typical message (google on it), I have just
tested on 5 different networks and on all networks there is differences in
delivery of NDR depending on cached or non cached mode, I was testing NDR
against incorrectly address mails in the same domain not for mailbox
policies, the OP said a few minutes and while I didn't see a few minutes in
cached mode I did see between 30 - 90 odd seconds to get an NDR back. The
real test will be though is that if the OP is in cached mode and tests by
going to non cached. Thanks for the feedback, by the way the first kb
article is incorrect http://support.microsoft.com/?id=821299