This is a completely ridiculous limit, am hitting it in about 20+ rules.
And on exhange 2010 or 365 I don't have authority to change it, and getting hold of a proper admin would be a hassle not to mention I hit the limit after less than half a year with this account, and would have kept adding rulessince I am a filer rather
than piler of emails, so even 256 kb seems very limiting, with the way the rules seems stored if 20 rules hits 64kB.
Beyond that the system is ridiculously broken since all my rules ar "client-side" "on this compyuter ony" and they are sti required to be stored on server, there is no work around, os even though there is no usefulness with server-siderules
for me the server side limitation is still ruining my outlook experience.
COme on, this needs to addressed, eithe ri na way to keep rules client side and avoid limitation, or by upping the rules quota in an intelligent way that takes less space on the server or runs more efficiently with a vastly increased quota. Why are there
not hordes of analysts and coders trying to solve this optimization problem, you can't expect that a 2-fold increase since 2003 would be anywhere near sufficient can you?
I am thoroughly amused by the solutions page work workarounds that Microsoft put out, if has at least 5 different strategies that are all different levels of dumb-hack workarounds including the staple solution of "use less character is the rules",
more the files to a shorter more direct drive path etc etc, and the tens of steps needed on each one of the "solutions" (https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/886616). It must have taken more time and effort to compile those workarounds on your
help pages than it would take to implement a efficiency server side solution... I have no mandate to tell you what to do, but please heed my wish of doing something different than what you are currently doing ;) and I'll be a very happy user again.