Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 10:45:41 -0800 (PST) From: "Sumbry][" <sumbry@ahnet.net> To: Michael Moran <mmoran@veronet.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: E-Mail size limitation by ISPs Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.00.9903181042230.29835-100000@control.ahnet.net> In-Reply-To: <36F0524C.757921FE@tdx.co.uk>
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> Are ISPs out there limiting the size of e-mail messages and its file > attachments? > If so, what are their size of limitation? and reasons? Yup, we are. We implement file system quotas, and have users at a 5 meg soft limit, and a 20 meg hard limit (for a 7 day time limit). Reasons being, that no one needs to be sending anything over 10 megs via email (should be via ftp) especially since alot of POP clients will barf on large emails. The other reason we allow them a soft limit of 20 megs, is just in case they feel they absolutely have to transfer a huge file temporarily via email. In all cases, this has worked fine for us. The main reason we implement quotas though, is to keep people from leaving all their email on our servers (ie, download it and delete it). You'd be surprised how many users leave this option on, and never remove a single email message from the server over the lifetime of their account. IMHO- you'll run out of space much faster from people leaving their email on the server, than a few rogue users transfering large files. ----- Sumbry][ | Affinity Hosting | http://affinity.net | sumbry@affinity.net "Okay, who turned reality back on?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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