From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Jan 28 10:58:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA26951 for freebsd-isp-outgoing; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:58:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uranus.planet-three.com (homer.duff-beer.com [194.207.51.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA26942 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 10:58:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scot@poptart.org) Received: from localhost (scot@localhost) by uranus.planet-three.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA11231 for ; Wed, 28 Jan 1998 18:58:06 GMT Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 18:58:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Scot Elliott To: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail - low on space In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. > > You might even talk them into using ftp. 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. Definately talk your users into using FTP or something similar. Maybe get them to embed a URL in their document so that the likes of Netscape mail users can just click to open an attachment. Scot ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scot Elliott (scot@poptart.org) | Work: +44 (0)1344 899401 PGP fingerprint: FCAE9ED3A234FEB59F8C7F9DDD112D | Home: +44 (0)181 8961019 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Public key available by finger at: finger scot@poptart.org or at: http://www.poptart.org/pgpkey.html