Quoting Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
what's a reasonable email size limit that people set on their mail server ?
I have 10MB which I thought was 'reasonable' ?
A lot of (most/all?) mail servers by default will reject messages over
10MB. Remember, there are encoding overheads as well - so a 10MB
attachment will add several more MB to the resulting message.
With most people on superfast connections these days there is a
tendency to think that it's ok to fling huge attachments around by
email. In reality, email is a poor way to transfer large files. Aside
from the encoding issues there are also SMTP transport/timeout issues
to contend with.
Hands up everyone here who's constantly trying to educate their
families not to send them huge emails with unresized digital photos
attached? I try to tell them that anything over 3MB is really too big
- even on my connection, currently sitting at 16687 kbps, it can take
a long time to download a 3MB email.
There are plenty of other ways to transfer larger files these days. If
FTP isn't an option there are any number of online sites that will
allow you to move files around. Can't think of any of the names
offhand but I'm sure a search engine will be your friend here.
HTH
Craig
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