From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Mar 17 17:25:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from Thanatos.Shenton.Org (Thanatos.Shenton.Org [209.31.147.195]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2917B1546D for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 17:24:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chris@shenton.org) Received: (from chris@localhost) by Thanatos.Shenton.Org (8.9.2/8.9.2) id UAA86690; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 20:30:00 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from chris) To: Michael Moran Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: E-Mail size limitation by ISPs References: <3.0.2.32.19990317161116.008b8c60@veronet.net> From: Chris Shenton Date: 17 Mar 1999 20:30:00 -0500 In-Reply-To: Michael Moran's message of "Wed, 17 Mar 1999 16:11:16 -0500" Message-ID: <877lsfh9ev.fsf@Thanatos.Shenton.Org> Lines: 22 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.6.45/Emacs 20.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Michael Moran writes: > 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? And how exactly? Most quota systems I've seen assume the mail gets put in the users' home dirs. Then you have to worry whether your MTA can do that, and whether your POP, IMAP, pine, elm, mail, Mail, mailx, MH, mutt, ... can figure out where to find their mail. Wondering what others are doing... One ISP I support gives 10-20MB of total users space for whatever they want: public_html, saved mail, anything. But they usually find problems when their POP mail box gets huge so it takes forever to download it into their remote reader. Would be nice to quota it, and nicer to implement something like file-per-message so retrieval and removal would be faster. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message