IIRC, the 5MB limit comes from some Microsoft article I remember reading a long time ago. It could go back as far as Microsoft Mail 3.5. However, I have only heard discussion in various Exchange groups, that 5-10MB seems to be the limit (with exceptions, of course).
Geoff....... -----Original Message----- From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 11:38 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: need ammo A quick check of 10 or so companies ESMTP compliant mail servers didn't bear out the assertion that most companies have a limit of 5MB on the IMS. Has someone actually done a more comprehensive survey of IMS limits or was the 5MB number an off the cuff statistic? > -----Original Message----- > From: Darryl Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 7:35 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: RE: need ammo > > > The general policy of most companies is 5MB limit of Internet > inbound/Outbound messages. In my opinion, too many users > think of email systems as being some panacean highway for any > kind of data transmission no matter the threat or > inconvenience to others. I have had nitwits send out large > messages which got caught in a nasty mail loop. There is no > easy answer but I recommend that you approach this from a > policy point of view. > > Our policy here is 5MB. > No ifs or butts (pun intended). > > D. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrey Fyodorov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 2:17 PM > 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 > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
