If the business drives the need to send large attachments around, it may be worth looking into a tool that works with the server to ZIP compress attachments automatically on their way out. Users tend to use email as a file transfer mechanism because it's all they're familiar with, and there are steps we can take to make it easier for the poor saps on the other end downloading this stuff. C2C has one that I know of. There's also tools to delay transmission of huge emails until off-peak times.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Dale Geoffrey Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Posted At: Friday, September 06, 2002 12:05 PM > Posted To: Exchange (Swynk) > Conversation: need ammo > Subject: RE: need ammo > > > 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] > _________________________________________________________________ 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]
