Prior to this incident it was 200MB.  After the incident we set the
following

        IW - 40MB
        PS - 50MB
        PSR - 200MB

Note: We had informed the customer of these issues prior to the incident
with their server.  It was only after the crash that they believed us.


> ----------
> From:         Andy David
> Reply To:     [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent:         Friday, September 6, 2002 07:15
> To:   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject:      RE: need ammo
> 
> What was the size limit on the individual mailboxes?
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Couch, Nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 7:50 AM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: RE: need ammo
> 
> 
> We have one customer with a 100MB SMTP limit which "they say" needed for
> some large CAD engineering drawings they were sending.  One of these got
> caught in an email loop and generated so many transaction log files that
> it
> killed the server.  We spent the good portion of a day recovering from
> that
> disaster.  
> 
> Most of our customers have reasonable limits 10-15MB.
> 
> Have them use Winzip.  It will save them time and you headaches.  Just
> tell
> them the story above and
> imagine what their CEO would say if he/she finds out it was them who
> caused
> him/her a delay in getting 
> the CEO's email sent.  They might find themselves on the unemployment line
> like the guy above did.
> 
> Nate
> 
> 
> > ----------
> > From:       Andrey Fyodorov
> > Reply To:   Exchange Discussions
> > Sent:       Thursday, September 5, 2002 16:17
> > To:         Exchange Discussions
> > Subject:    need ammo
> > 
> > Hi all.
> > 
> > I have this customer who is unhappy about 10MB message limit size on
> SMTP
> > connectors in our shared Exchange environment.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any scary stories about what happens when people try to
> > send too many messages that are too large? What is a reasonable size for
> > SMTP message?
> > 
> > Our servers originally had higher limits but a few times large SMTP
> > messages crashed the servers.
> > 
> > I just need to convince this customer that it is not a good idea to send
> > large messages.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> >     Andrey Fyodorov
> > 
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