[sllug-members]: Email attachment limits

[Robert Lewis]

I think google now allows 20-mb.

Adam Barrett wrote:
> I can't speak for my place of employment, but I limit my users to 10MB.
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> I tell them if they need to send/receive anything larger they need to
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> 1) reconsider what they are sending/receiving
> 1a) Can their receiving party get a file that large?
> 2) find alternatives
> 3) learn ftp
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> 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.
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> Hope this helps.
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> On Jan 17, 2008 11:27 AM, Jason Reverri <jreverri at comcast.net> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> Thanks, Jason
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