I guess the best answer would be business-related. What is the standard size of attachments that are sent to a company? I would say that if your company were an advertising agency, then you would need larger limits, due to the graphic file, etc. If your company was a law firm, you would need even larger limits. But if your company only exchanges emails messages and rarely sends back and forth attachments, the default could be no limit. As I said at the beginning -- it is all related to the type of business, IMHO.
Geoff....... -----Original Message----- From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 11:53 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: need ammo At my last gig we routinely received e-mail messages which were 200MB+. 5-10MB limits would have been laughed at. > -----Original Message----- > From: Dale Geoffrey Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 10:46 AM > To: Exchange Discussions > 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] _________________________________________________________________ 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]
