On Sun, 07 Nov 1999 15:11:29 -0700 in Andy Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thus said Jason Haar on Mon, 08 Nov 1999 10:36:38 +1300:
>
> > We have a 64Kb Frame Relay link with burst to 128Kb. We have users here
> > sending their current favourite 3 Mb MP3 file to 30 friends - effectively
> > taking our Internet link offline for the next several hours. Qmail being the
> > great bandwidth chewer it is suddenly has 20 concurrent qmail-remotes
> > running all delivering the same Email message to 20 different people - some
> > of who are on the same server (i.e. hotmail.com). I've actually upped our
> > concurrency limit due to this "feature" of qmail. Of course another
> > side-effect of this is that other users mail ends up being queued as the
> > concurrency limit's been hit.
> Sounds like you should educate your users. They shouldn't be using SMTP at
> all for sending MP3s. The standard protocol for transfering files is FTP,
> not SMTP. I believe you can setup qmail to reject emails > than some
> specified size.
> Andy
Times are changing. Unified messaging is coming. Email, voice mail,
faxes, video mail, all will be the same thing. "User education" will
not be the answer--building the appropriate user interfaces and
designing the appropriate transport protocols will be.
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