Here's one interesting solution I heard about not too long ago:
http://www.whalemail.com/
Another interesting solution would be to teach your MTA to
automatically replace MIME attachments with a link to a Web page and a
password, and decode and store the attachments on a Web server. Not
appropriate for a lot of people, but interesting for a business that
can get away with automagically munging people's email.
-----Scott.
Chris Hardie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, 28 Apr 2000, Andy Bradford wrote:
>
> > I may be rehashing old topics, and I may sound a little bit old
> > fashioned (even at age 26), but I don't believe email was ever meant to
> > handle that large amount of traffic. Or, in other words SMTP != FTP
> > I am still of the opinion that one should instruct users to use the
> > right protocols for the right reasons. Hence, put the 10MB PowderPoint
> > file in a public or private ftp directory and then include a URL to
> > fetch it in the email.
>
> I agree with this sentiment, but it's becoming increasingly difficult to
> find good ways to enforce it. Case in point: we do web development for an
> organization that has a PR firm develop brochures and then send them to us
> for posting on their website. The files are often 7-10 MB in size, large
> enough to be cumbersome for e-mail, small enough to make overnighting a
> ZIP disk seem a little excessive.
>
> The organization hosts their site with us, and so we could obviously
> instruct them to upload the files through FTP, but the PR firm shouldn't
> necessarily be able to do this. It gets more complicated when you think
> that it's not always going to be the same person at the PR firm sending
> the files, and that there are many cases where other third parties need to
> send us materials related to the site.
>
> Clearly it's a complicated issue, but it seems that as broadband access to
> the net becomes more common, businesses are going to expect to be able to
> use one "interface" to do all their communications, be it plain text
> messages or large multi-megabyte file transfers. I cringe every time
> someone sends me a 7 MB mail message, but it's difficult to explain to
> them why this is a bad idea.
>
> I'd be interested to hear if anyone's found a good general solution to
> this in a production/business environment.
>
> Chris
>
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