My experience is that many (most?) organisations has problems with users
sending emails with big attachments in large amounts, often to group
addresses. This creates
problems both for end users and administrators since the email
infrastructure isn't really capable of handling really big attachments
in large amounts.
The Right Thing is that the sender stores the attachment at some
location where the
recipient can access it, and then just sends the link. However, this is
just to
complicated for most normal users, so they tend to attach even such
things as
video clips and worse.. A week ago, we encountered a 500 Mb backup as an
attachment,
causing some minor problems ;-)
My idea is to somehow makes the Right Thing available as a simple
command/button; something like "Attach big file" which stores the file
at a ftp
server and adds som text in the message containing the link. It might
even make
sense to enforce this kind of handling for really big attachments.
Personally, I think this might be really useful. Anyone else out there?
