Brian,
Thanks for reply, and I just want to make sure I understand what would
happen so I will know if this will address the problem at hand.
Problem: We have a limit on mailbox sizes that result in an inability to
receive messages after the limit has been exceeded (we also impose a similar
restriction on the ability to send, but that is not the concern). With this
limit, when someone goes on an extended vacation or other absence, there is a
risk that they will not receive critical messages as well as more routine
ones while they are out as messages keep coming in. One way to handle this
would be Inbox rules to reroute messages, but we may be talking more than
anyone else might care to deal with for another person; then, they too might
run into problems because they exceed the limits themselves.
A possible solution that came to mind would be to setup a folder in one's
Inbox (say, Absent) and either leave it empty or put a message that one does
not mind someone else seeing in it, and grant access to another person to
ONLY that folder(to protect any confidential messages one might have in other
folders). One also would turn on a rule temporarily that would route all
inbound messages to another folder, set autoarchive to daily on that folder,
and ask the other person to access the Absence folder for you. Autoarchive
would be set to move messages to a file share on a server that does not
impose any limit that one might reach during the absence.
Would this work as outlined?
Merci again.
