Undeliverable - system limit or recipients mailbox is full

[jme]

I've been using outlook 2000 for 8 years. I just installed outlook 2003 on a new thinkpad, got everything going on it. My email is on an exchange server. I can get new emails all day, but if I try to send one, it says "This message is larger than the current system limit or the recipient's mailbox is full. Create a shorter message body or remove attachments and try sending it again." I know for a fact nobody's email inboxes are full, I can send/receive with my other thinkpad with no problems to the same people and myself. What other reason could there be that emails OUTGOING get rejected with this msg? The emails I am sending are test ones, like 5 words in body, and 2 in subject, they are the smallest emails ever. Anyone have ideas?

 

[jme]

that 8 was supposed to be a 3. sorry.

 

[Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]]

Try creating a new mail profile on the laptop with the sending problem.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After searching google.groups.com and finding no answer, jme asked:

| I've been using outlook 2000 for 8 years. I just installed outlook
| 2003 on a new thinkpad, got everything going on it. My email is on an
| exchange server. I can get new emails all day, but if I try to send
| one, it says "This message is larger than the current system limit or
| the recipient's mailbox is full. Create a shorter message body or
| remove attachments and try sending it again." I know for a fact
| nobody's email inboxes are full, I can send/receive with my other
| thinkpad with no problems to the same people and myself. What other
| reason could there be that emails OUTGOING get rejected with this
| msg? The emails I am sending are test ones, like 5 words in body, and
| 2 in subject, they are the smallest emails ever. Anyone have ideas?

 

[jme]

My outlook inbox is almost finished replicating, as soon as its done, I'll try that and let you know the results, thanks for posting.

 

[jme]

Same error "This message is larger than the current system limit or the recipient's mailbox is full. Create a shorter message body or remove attachments and try sending it again." It asked me after clicking SEND if I wanted to keep the rules on the server or on the client becuz they didnt match, I chose server. It sent email, 1 min later, i got the error response. Any other ideas

 

[Jme]

Found the answer. When I migrated to my new pc, importing my folders (inbox, sent, personal, etc) I put them under the INBOX folder. Unfortunately, since I wasn't using a PST file on the new pc yet (was planning to convert after getting all the data over) the INBOX got big. Well, the exchange server has a limit on the inbox and when it reaches that limit, it no longer lets you send email, and is supposed to email you a notice to say so. I didn't get my notice until 12 hours later, so now moving my inbox and sent and personal folders into a personal folder pst instead of using the server for store email, the server is happy again and I can now send emails.