From owner-freebsd-isp Tue Feb 3 10:57:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA12671 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 10:57:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay1.mail.uk.psi.net (relay1.mail.uk.psi.net [154.32.105.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA12654 for ; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 10:57:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robmel@nadt.org.uk) Received: from sys4.cambridge.uk.psi.net (sys4.cambridge.uk.psi.net [154.32.106.14]) by relay1.mail.uk.psi.net (8.8.5/) with ESMTP id SAA15090; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 18:57:34 GMT Received: by sys4.cambridge.uk.psi.net (8.8.5/SMI-5.5-UKPSINet) id SAA09000; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 18:12:39 GMT Received: from infodev.nadt.org.uk (infodev.nadt.org.uk [172.16.99.205]) by charlie.nadt.org.uk (8.8.8/8.6.12) with SMTP id RAA24002; Tue, 3 Feb 1998 17:37:58 GMT Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980203173800.007de100@wrcmail> X-Sender: robmel@wrcmail X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 17:38:00 +0000 To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" , Scot Elliott , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG From: Robin Melville Subject: Re: Sendmail - low on space In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19980128195410.007178ac@198.137.186.100> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" At 19:54 28/01/98 -0600, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: >At 06:58 PM 1/28/98 +0000, Scot Elliott wrote: >>On Wed, 28 Jan 1998, Jeff Lynch wrote: >> >>> Yikes. I would set it at 20MB or 30MB and explain why it is necessary. If >>> they have an occaisonal need you can always jack it up temporarily. >>> It you leave it unlimited, you'll probably be sorry. >> >>I totally agree with this. EMail was just not designed for rediculously >>large transfers like this. It's inefficient because there's no restart >>facility (I dont think...) in case a connection gets broken, like there is >>with FTP and HTTP. > >What burns me is that they don't compress large files. Don't want to teach them how to use WinZip, make it self-extracting. >... >Still it wasn't as bad as the idiot that sent a 42 MB file to a fellow worker, who-was-in-the-same-office!!! Hello?! Did you local network crash? Better still, I had a clown who decided that a good backup system would be to email herself the entire contents of her PC hd.. fortunately only a 500Mb disk. That was fun... -------------------------------------------------------- Robin Melville, Addiction & Forensic Information Service Nottingham Alcohol & Drug Team (Extn. 49178) Vox: +44 (0)115 952 9478 Fax: +44 (0)115 952 9421 Email: robmel@nadt.org.uk WWW: http://www.innotts.co.uk/nadt/ ---------------------------------------------------------