I'm not convinced a faster server is the answer either... it just gives the illusion that it's been "fixed" ... how much longer will it be before even the faster server has issues? And then you're having this conversation all over again.
Yeah sorry I didnt mean that would be a fix, I just meant when you explain these things to the people in charge you have to give them the alternatives - in this case the only way to stop the email system being slow is to either buy a more powerful server or get people using smaller mailboxes. When faced with either having to spend money or having small mailboxes, the majority of business owners / bosses will decide that having smaller mailboxes for normal users is the way to go... unless of course they have plenty of cash to spare and dont mind spending it on an upgraded server, in which case then I dont see any reason not to just get a beast of a server, as long as you warn them that somewhere down the line they will be in the same situation. One thing that IT people often tend to forget is that IT is only there to help the business run and make money - a lot of IT departments I have worked in act as if they own the network and everyone must obey their rules even if it means a user cant do their job as efficiently as they could if they didnt have to obey some of these rules (of course some rules cant be broken for good reasons, but I mean situations where IT just say something cant be done because it means more work for them or because of some policy they have just dreamt up - I'm not suggesting that this is such a case by the way Stanav!).