Note You can specify mail file quota indicator settings on the desktop policy settings document. The mail file quota indicator settings designate whether a mail quota indicator is displayed on the Notes client, and if it is displayed, the automatic update interval for the mail quota in minutes and whether the mail quota is refreshed when the cursor hovers over the mail quota indicator.

Quotas and warning thresholds can be associated with a particular mail file database only, not with a user ID. If a user has access to an alternate mail file, the quota set on the primary mail file has no effect on the alternate mail file. You set these quota limits and warning thresholds:

• During registration - quotas specified during registration apply only to new users, not to existing users. For users migrated from other mail systems, the restrictions do not apply to mailbox contents brought over from the old system. In other words, a mail file limit of 500MB does not prevent you from migrating a user's 600MB mail box from another mail system. However, the user will not be able to receive new mail.
• Per database - Using the IBM® Lotus® Domino® Administrator, you can manually specify the warning threshold and quota of one or more mail files using the same method you would to set these limits for any Notes database.

Using Advanced Notes user registration with the Domino Administrator
Setting database size quotas
Creating a desktop policy settings document
Organizational and explicit policies
Using quotas to manage the size of user mail files
Detecting when a mail file exceeds its quota

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