Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 19:54:10 -0600 From: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" <mountin.man@mixcom.com> To: Scot Elliott <scot@poptart.org>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sendmail - low on space Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19980128195410.007178ac@198.137.186.100> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980128185432.11194B-100000@uranus.planet-thr ee.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980128122415.3649G-100000@mercury.jorsm.com>
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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. >> >> 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. 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. Nothing like having almost 300 mailboxes for one company and a dozen or more being sent a 12 MB PowerPoint attachment, when most could not download it. Then it had to be purged without killing other messages. Especially since most of the recipients were on their LAN/WAN in the above case. 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? Need I mention the time when someone sent a large attachment, the message bounce, and the person's mail client chokes? Better to educate them. Some mailers choke at 1 MB attachments, but limits were set at 5 MB. Bigger, too bad, use ftp. >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. Simple enough to setup a virtual web/ftp to handle this. In fact this could be a valuable service addition for business customers. (Must say that this thead has really taken off.) Jeff Mountin - Unix Systems TCP/IP networking mountin.man@mixcom.com
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