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Originally Posted by ThisIsNot
I get over a dozen e-mails that are sent to everyone in the building and they have absolutely nothing to do with me. One e-mail had to do with an article in the NY Times about mothers being treated unfairly in the work environment. I am not a mother, I am not female, and I don't care. It didn't affect my job in any way, shape, or form. That e-mail sat in my account overnight and ended up filling my inbox. We only have 250MB for our e-mails, that isn't a whole lot by the time you add in 15MB attachments.
I want to filter those e-mails out while still accepting the good e-mails sent to everyone (like ones about meetings, safety training, etc.). Neither e-mail client can do that for me so I don't like them. Instead I have to check my e-mail 20 times a day to delete all of the incoming crap.
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What you are describing is a corporate decision to make your life miserable. Seriously. The same email policies are true at my company and millions of others. There are 2 primary reasons why companies limit your inbox (and even thick client functionality):
1)Too much email. The more email you get/send, the more the IT dept has to back up...the more they have to back up, the more time and money they have to spend. Period. Put a limit like 200MB and people learn not to send 20MB attachments...and learn to delete/archive email that is 90+ days old and very likely unimportant now.
2)Lawsuits. The more email a company has on ALL its machines, the more likely the company will be sued. All it takes is 1 small lawsuit and the lawyers start going through all the emails looking for stuff pertaining to the lawsuit. Even if the emails are old and somewhat out of context, they can be used in the suit. This scenario is essentially called Records Management and companies need to basically "delete what you don't need and keep what you do". That's the name of the game. If you still have an email in your Sent box from 2001 telling a worker he's a *!@#*%)(! bleep bleep bleep, when he sues the company 10 years later if that email is found, the company is in deep do do. Even if the company policy is to delete email after 5 years, the fact that IT IS STILL SOMEWHERE is the problem. Again, companies simply have begun to just delete everything that is not a "Record".
-Eric