[itdiscuss] Email Message Size Limits

[Dan Barber]

Generally speaking, yes, large email files will kill your bandwidth. I
have seen people email MP3 or WAV files that were hundreds of MBs when I
had no size limits on our server. Now, we limit to around what everyone
else (Google, Yahoo, etc.) seems to limit to, 20MB. We are creating a
public drop box for employees to drop files into that are larger so that
people can download them.

 

DAN BARBER

Network Administrator

Kirk of the Hills, PCA

dbarber at kirkofthehills.org

314.484.6939

 

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[mailto:discuss-bounces at itdiscuss.org] On Behalf Of blloyd at buskercom.com
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 1:35 PM
To: discuss at itdiscuss.org
Subject: [itdiscuss] Email Message Size Limits

 

I have a question about limiting the size of each message.  The trend
that I have seen is to limit the size of an individual email to
somewhere between 2mb and 10mb.  I've always heard that the reason for
such limits is primarily to limit security risks.  Can anyone give me
good reasons why you should limit message sizes?  I believe there are
good reasons, but I'm trying to explain them to the CEO.

 

Thanks,

 

 

Bill Lloyd 
IT Manager

 

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Norcross, GA 30093
Phone: 770-417-1604
Cell:     404-379-6963

blloyd at buskercom.com

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