> > > Here you need the horses. Celeron 500 kinda level.
> >
> >Exactly and you just don't see many of those headed for the junk pile.
>
> But new AV gateway sw already a pile of cash that should include powerful,
> current hw.
Yes, and that equates to money. I think part of the issue is that it is an
unseen benefit. If it works and works well it is transparent, as it should
be. But that makes it harder to sell to the higher staff. Sort of like
disaster recovery preparedness, no one seems to be able to sell that until
after the first couple of disasters. (After all the first one is always
judged a freak occurrance that could never happen again. I'm from the
midwest and say to floods of the century in two years.) If we survive a
mail server disaster or two maybe they will come up with the cash. That's
how we got the equipment we aslked for before the last server hicup, of
course it was approved after.
>
> Only Quota is 5 Mb of mail stored on the server. Let's see, 5 x 2,000 =
> >trouble
>
> Is there any way in IMail to limit incoming msg size at reception time,
> other than the mailbox size?
Not that I've been able to find. I'm open to suggestion on that one.
>
> If 5 megs is the mbx limit, what would be a defendable, reasonable limit
on
> per-msg size? certainly, smaller than 5 megs. 2 megs? 3 megs per msg?
>
Most of the free services will authorize you 2 - 3 Mb and let you go over
for short periods. at about 10Mb they lock your account out until you
delete it back down.
> Disk space is free, but AV scanning and bandwidth for all that stuff
isn't.
On the subject of disk space being free, we've had customers use up all of
their space and open new accounts because they wanted to save all of their
Email online, just incase they needed it. That's why I was able to supply
one of the other list members with reasons not to let the administration
saddle them with archiving all of the students and faculty's old Email.
As for kids only sending text files... One of the local colleges lost use of
a student mail server when some student tried to mail some program (14MB,
zipped) from inside the school over an instructors workstation. He tried to
send it to over 30 of his friends, some of whom were also on the schools
network. THe oversized attachment hung several oftheir servers for a day or
two during finals week. Glad it wasn't us is all I can say.
> Len
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