From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Mar 17 18:16:58 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from germanium.xtalwind.net (germanium.xtalwind.net [205.160.242.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F6041529A for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 18:16:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jack@germanium.xtalwind.net) Received: from localhost (jack@localhost) by germanium.xtalwind.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA94452; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 20:36:32 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 20:36:32 -0500 (EST) From: jack To: Michael Moran Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: E-Mail size limitation by ISPs In-Reply-To: <3.0.2.32.19990317161116.008b8c60@veronet.net> 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 Today Michael Moran wrote: > Are ISPs out there limiting the size of e-mail messages and its file > attachments? We do. > If so, what are their size of limitation? 10,000,000 bytes > and reasons? Grandpa gets a digital camera and just has to send everyone a couple of 98meg .tiff or .bmp images of the grandchildren. The user in the `To:' field doesn't realize that he has to wait a few hours for all that crap to download so he disconnects before it finishes. Next thing you know tech support gets a call, "What's wrong with your email? I can't get my mail.". -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message