Can not receive email with attachement.

Even with only 5 users, there are some good reasons to keep mailbox size under control.  Do you have a stand-alone Exchange server or is this a Small Business Server?

Because if it's a Small Business Server, you may want attachments handled differently than going into user's mailboxes.  

Here's the how-to, though, for increasing the size:  http://www.smallbizserver.net/Articles/tabid/266/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/54/How-do-I-increase-a-mailbox-size-in-Exchange.aspx
(The example is on a Small Business Server, but the procedure is the same on a Standard Server 2003)

I would only suggest that you investigate a bit more about what your options are before making any kind of drastic change.

Jeff
TechSoEasy

Thanks for the replay.

I don't have a small business server I have exchange 2003 standard edition.

Well, my answer is still the same, I only mentioned SBS because it has SharePoint which can offload your attachments nicely.  

You can still increase the mailboxes as shown above.  Or you can also change the overall policy for mailbox size on the properties dialogue of your Exchange Mailbox Store object.

Jeff
TechSoEasy

How Can I change the policy overall I think this will make things standard so I don't have it in each user different way

Thanks

Moataz

Right click the Mailbox Store > Properties.  Then change what you want on the LIMITS tab.

Jeff
TechSoEasy

Global setting
This setting determines the maximum size of the messages in the Exchange 2000 organization; the messages can be incoming, outgoing, or internal.

To configure the global setting, follow these steps: 1. Start Exchange System Manager. To do this, click Start, point to Programs, point to Microsoft Exchange, and then click System Manager.
2. Expand Global Settings.
3. Right-click Message Delivery, and then click Properties.
4. Click the Default tab to configure the global settings.

This is going to override any other applied limit policy

Thanks
Kunal

Thank you all for your replies.  I really appreciate it.. You all are truly EXPERTS!!!!

I set the settings using the above procedure to the following:

Sending Message Size:  20480 KB
Receiving Message Size:  20480 KB

The Receipient Limits are kept the same as 5000, which I understand that this setting is for the number of recipients to receive an email.  IS THIS CORRECT?

However, I still have a few questions.

How can I be sure that the settings that I set will not surprise me and max out my storage limit in reference to my server?

Is the Sending and Receiving limit that I enterred common or should I reduce or increase it?  Any suggestions???

In exchange, I think that there is an alert that I can set to warn me when my server is about to max.  Where can I set this as well as what is the preferred number to enter?

Do I need to change anything in the SMTP Virtual Server settings?

Thank you very much for your help.

Have a great day.

Recepient limit shows the number of recepient for each message u r right.
the default limit is 10240 and it used commonly but if u find problems in sending large attachment keep in mind that recepients server has their own settings they might not allowed large attachments.
increasing or decreasing the attachment limit is depends on your company policy, data security, bandwidth limit etc.
you can mention your email address in smtp virtual server messages tab "Send copy of Non-delivery Reports to" so u can get and analyze the non delivery reports. u should also enable "recepient filtering" otherwise u will get all email which are intended to your domain with wrong recepient.
to enable recepient filtering go to Global Settings then Message Delivery take properties and select Recepient Filtering tab leave the box blank and tick the check box saying "Filter the recepient who are not in derectory" secondly go to your smtp virtual server properties in General tab ckick on "Advanced" button in next window click "Edit" and then tick the check box saying "Apply Recepient Filter"

Cheers !