On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:55 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]>wrote:
> I must use PSU's e-mail servers, even for my Comcast account, or I > won't be able to send e-mail when I am on campus. > > Recent "upgrades" to the university e-mail system changed the maximum > e-mail attachment from 20 MB to 8 MB. > > Side question 1: How does this benefit the university? Doesn't the > entire e-mail and all its attachments merely pass through the > university's computers? Am I correct in thinking that the 20 ~ 8 MB > never resides on the university's servers? > > This is seriously annoying to me. I cannot get files from my professors > because they are too big to pass through the university's e-mail > system. > > As a workaround, I am looking for web-based file storage sites. All I > have found so far are unacceptable. > > Does anyone know of such a site (free) that does not require an e-mail > address so they can spam me forever with requests that I upgrade to a > for-pay account? > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug John, Gmail should work but .. barring that I can set up webdav or ftp on my box in a pdx colo for you if you want. As an aside it probably has more to do with bandwidth than storage in the case of PSU's change in attachment size. Drew- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
