But DBMail is for *mail* storage, no? It is not a *file* storage system...
You've never seen email used for a companies then have you? It's a very popular file sharing/storage system even though it's not designed to do that.
This is only because the Sys Admins let them get away with it, and/or are unable to intelligently explain why this is so bad - or, admittedly, there is always the problematic CEO that says 'I don't care, just do what I'm tellin' ya.' - in which case, the admin doesn't have much choice... I think such actual cases are more the exception though, and the former two cases the most likely problem.
This is a configuration setting that you manage in the mail server. DO NOT replicate that which is already done in dbmail. That's just going to lead to heartache and pain for someone -- either the developers of dbmail, the admins of the mail servers, the users, or all of the above.
? When you say 'mail server' in your first sentence, I think you mean 'MTA' - in which case, you are correct - I was shooting from the hip.
But, there is one problem, that someone else already pointed out... if someone just saves a draft, this completely byu[asses the MTA - so there should be a way for DBMail to check this too. Just make it very clear that you should never configure DBMail to a setting lower than your MTA - or, maybe just make DBMail respond with a delivery failure notification...
I would *never* allow my mail system to store individual *emails* larger than 50MB...
Well, you can configure your mail server to limit emails to whatever size makes you happy.
Yep - but again, it just is not sane to use email for GB size attachments - it isn't made for it, and never will be (without major rewrite of the SMTP protocol).
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