need to send an email alert for just 1 individual mailbox

Are you talking about the client side running Microsoft Outlook?

If yes, the Outlook rules may help. Have a look at the following link for some hints.

http://www.wikihow.com/Manage-Email-Using-Microsoft-Outlook-Rules

no some sort of script or something
rulea do not work for me

> some sort of script or something

You mean Exchange Server side scripting?

i dont care all i need is to be kept informed when the journal mailbox reaches a certain size
or certain number of items
i dont care how it does it as long as i get some sort of alert

Hi, dougdog.

I could accomplish this with an Outlook macro, but there's a downside.  For the macro to work, you'll have to keep a computer running with Outlook open all the time.  The macro would watch for new items being delivered to the mailbox.  Each time a new item arrived, the macro would count the number of items and/or calculate how space the mailbox is using and send you an email if it goes over the limits you set.  If you closed Outlook, then the process would stop.  If leaving a computer on with Outlook open i s a problem, then one fallback position would be to write a script that would check periodically (e.g. once an hour).  You'd schedule the script to run using Windows Scheduler.  You could pick whatever interval you want.  If that's not good, then you're left with using an event-sink.  An event-sink is a script that runs at the Exchange server.  If that's the route you need to go, then I recommend that you hire a professional developer.  A poorly written, buggy event-sink could bring the entire server down.  They are best left to someone with experience in that arena.

The schedule script sound's good
How could I achieve this

Did you set up storage quota limit for mailbox in your exchange servers? If you do, you can create a transport rule.

Try:

a.      Launch EMC

b.      Expand to “Organization Configuration”>”Hub Transport”

c.       In the middle-pane, select “Transport Rules” and create a new rule

d.      In the wizard, set the rule as below:

Apply rule to message

When the Subject field contains The words in the subject of quota message

   And copy the message to Administrator

Notes: You can also add more conditions into the rule in order to scope more strictly on the messages.

Tried this but for some reason doesnt work.
Also this only would send out 1 alert

dougdog,

Do you want the item count/size for the entire mailbox (e.g. inbox, calendar, tasks) or just a single folder?  If the latter, what folder?

all i need is the inbox