[sllug-members]: Email attachment limits

[Carl Youngblood]

There are also services like dropsend for this.

On Jan 17, 2008 12:37 PM, Adam Barrett <dragen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I can't speak for my place of employment, but I limit my users to 10MB.
>
> I tell them if they need to send/receive anything larger they need to
>
> 1) reconsider what they are sending/receiving
> 1a) Can their receiving party get a file that large?
> 2) find alternatives
> 3) learn ftp
>
> We have a public FTP server so they can deliver all the files they
> want via it. We have also implemented a small file sharing site for
> the same purpose (and those who won't learn FTP). They simply go to
> the site, upload the file through a form, and a link is produced they
> can mail out.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> On Jan 17, 2008 11:27 AM, Jason Reverri <jreverri at comcast.net> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I am trying to establish a best practice limit for email attachments.  I
> > know 10MB has been the standard for some time, but in the past few years
> > I have had to make concessions to 15MB for my users.  Now they are
> > pushing for higher limits again.  What do you have your email attachment
> > limits set to and for how many users?  This is for a medium to large
> > enterprise environment, so you can see my concerns about going too high
> > and brining production messaging to a crawl.