5Mb was quite large in MSMail days! :-) Looks rather small these days, IMHO.
Neil ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dale Geoffrey Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 4:45 PM Subject: RE: need ammo > 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] _________________________________________________________________ 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]
