{"id":718,"date":"2010-11-17T09:22:27","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T14:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/"},"modified":"2010-11-17T09:22:27","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T14:22:27","slug":"email-capacity","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/faq\/email-capacity\/","title":{"rendered":"Email Capacity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty members noted in the <a href=\"..\/2010\/09\/28\/2010-faculty-questionnaire-results\/\" target=\"_blank\">survey<\/a> comments that they\u2019d like <em>\u201clarger capacity for email\u201d<\/em> &#8211;  and this isn\u2019t a surprise, considering that our <a href=\"http:\/\/royalmail.scranton.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">my.scranton<\/a> email  system only allows about 200 MB of email to be stored on the  server. \u00a0If  you\u2019re an avid emailer like we TAG members tend to be, you  can fill up  this quota in under two months.<\/p>\n<p>Some  faculty have  avoided this quota issue altogether by forwarding or  otherwise  importing their University of Scranton email to another email  provider  (like <a href=\"..\/2010\/09\/30\/using-gmail-to-read-uofs-email\/\">Gmail<\/a>)   &#8211; however, the Information Security office has expressed concern about   faculty storing their my.scranton credentials on an external system,  as  well as the potential security issues involved with storing  University  email on non-University servers (find a draft document on  these concerns  <a href=\"https:\/\/royaldrive.scranton.edu\/xythoswfs\/webui\/_xy-2255304_1-t_n4BS8AJ3\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The  good news is that each faculty member\u2019s <strong>email storage capacity is about  to soar, from 200MB to 10GB<\/strong> &#8211; that is, when we make the <a href=\"..\/2010\/11\/04\/campus-email-will-switch-to-microsoft-liveedu\/\">transition to cloud-based email<\/a> using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/liveatedu\/free-email-accounts.aspx?locale=en-US&amp;country=US\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Live@Edu<\/a> in Summer 2011.<\/p>\n<p>In  the meantime, <strong>faculty members can request additional storage space for  email by contacting the <a href=\"http:\/\/academic.scranton.edu\/department\/helpdesk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Technology Support Center<\/a><\/strong>.  \u00a0According to the  TSC, increases of up to 200 MB aren\u2019t a problem. \u00a0If  you still need more  space, the TSC\u2019s recommendation is you should move  email, particularly  messages with large attachments, to your local  drive.<\/p>\n<p>Back to <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/2010\/11\/17\/response-to-survey-comments-top-faculty-concerns\/\" target=\"_self\">Top Faculty Concerns<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Faculty members noted in the survey comments that they\u2019d like \u201clarger capacity for email\u201d &#8211; and this isn\u2019t a surprise, considering that our my.scranton email system only allows about 200 MB of email to be stored on the server. \u00a0If you\u2019re an avid emailer like we TAG members tend to be, you can fill up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"parent":8,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-718","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/718\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.scranton.edu\/tag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}