[sllug-members]: Email attachment limits

[Jason Reverri]

Thanks for the feedback.  I will probably try to fall in line with 
google and recommend dropsend for larger files.  Looks like dropsend has 
an enterprise product that seems like a good fit.  Anyone know of any 
free/OSS alternatives that I could implement myself?

Robert Lewis wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>> Thanks, Jason
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