We're O365 and haven't tested what we could get away with [1] as far as actual file size goes. Before the move this year we published 15 and I allowed 18.
[1] moving to the cloud at least means users can't argue for special dispensation on some things, message size being one. Which is nice. Also means you don't have to ability to sometime be a hero, which isn't. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael B. Smith Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 11:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [Exchange] Quick straw poll: Email size limits Which, I believe, is what Office 365 does (for those specific numbers). From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Cosca Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 10:58 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [Exchange] Quick straw poll: Email size limits Right on - A current approach could be to advertise 25 MB as the limit and actually set the limit to 1.4 * 25 MB = 35 MB. To account for the factors that Adam mentioned. Mike From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Adam Farage Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 10:50 AM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: RE: [Exchange] Quick straw poll: Email size limits For most of my customers, we do 25MB. Some customers that are heavy on Outlook for Mac we set it a bit higher due to the ASP.NET to SMTP transcoding bloat. > Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 07:26:28 -0800 > Subject: Re: [Exchange] Quick straw poll: Email size limits > From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > 10mb external (send and receive), 20mb internal > > Kurt > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 1:26 AM, Nicholas Turner > <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > We're having the monthly battle with users about how big their attachments > > can be and I was wondering what you guys have set for the sending limits in > > your organisations. > > > > > > > > Out limits are currently set to 20mb internal and external (of course in > > real terms equating to about 15mb with mime encoding) > > > > > > > > I just want to send some info to users about current standards in sizing. I > > still consider 20mb to be quite generous myself! > > > > > > > > Nick > > > > > > This electronic message contains information from CACI International Inc or > > subsidiary companies, which may be confidential, proprietary, > > privileged or otherwise protected from disclosure. The information is > > intended to be used solely by the recipient(s) named above. If you are not > > an intended recipient, be aware that any review, disclosure, copying, > > distribution or use of this transmission or its contents is prohibited. If > > you have received this transmission in error, please notify us immediately > > at [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > Viruses: Although we have taken steps to ensure that this e-mail and > > attachments are free from any virus, we advise that in keeping with good > > computing practice the recipient should ensure they are actually virus free. > > > > CACI Limited. Registered in England & Wales. Registration No. 1649776. CACI > > House, Avonmore Road, London, W14 8TS. > >
