On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, David A. Bandel wrote: > On Thu, 30 Jan 2003 21:31:58 -0500 > Kurt Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Feigning erudition, Andrew Mathews wrote: > > % I've been searching for a reference to any specifications concerning > > % maximum message sizes for email. I've googled a fair amount but not > > % found anything specific other than RFC 1870 which doesn't give a > > % commonly accepted maximum size, just a 64k minimum capability. I'm > > % trying to provide some valid documentation to support my argument that a > > % mail server is NOT an server for large attachments, that's what we have > > % an ftp server for. Is there a standard for the maximum or is it simply > > % set by the individual isp? (we had a 10M limit and people are howling > > % since it's been reduced to 2M) > > > > I'm not aware of a standard size. You could poke around at > > http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/, though. Getting Bubba Lunchbucket not > > to use email to send huge attachments is probably a lost cause, > > though. > > No. Just keep a hard limit and the moron will have to learn. > > I don't know about any standard off the top, but I do know that some pop servers >(older versions of cucipop, not sure about newer ones) would choke on an e-mail >larger than 2Mb. > > Obviously, folks do not understand how SMTP works or they'd stop sending Gb >attachments. My mail servers will reject anything over 2Mb because it chokes the >pipes. Worst part is, these large attachments often go to long lists of people. I >refuse to buy an E-3 so folks can e-mail 6Gb databases to each other. I can only >afford 1024k (hopefully soon to be an E-1) with the number of clients I have. Large >e-mails are as bad as Kazaa.
This comment is for the thread and not Mr. Bandel specifically. This thread strikes me as being elitist and a common attitude I see with IT, IS, (or HMFIC's) people that manage mail services. Fine, email is not apropos for sending files, but what do we provide the customer as an alternative? My client base is not residential but government, quasi-goverment, and non-profits that generate and diseminate MS-Word docs, pdfs, jpgs, spreadsheats, and other types of non-ASCII information. Calling them morons, Bubbas, or idiots doesn't solve the problem. My limit is 50mb per email. I've noticed that people that use attachments are fairly active email users and as such don't present much issue with respect to mail spool size. Also my customer base is probably not as large as David's so my bandwidth and disk storage requirements are not as steep. I'm open for ideas. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
