Re: Way OT - comparison of ISP email size limits?

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David Elders <david_elders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
> Hi there,
>
> Way off-topic I know - anyone know of any good resources for comparing
> various ISPs with one of the factors being any limitation they set on
> the size of incoming and/or outgoing email messages?
>
> Reason I ask is that we have a customer who it appears is now
> suffering severely through their ISP implementing such a policy [they
> receive large graphical files via email regularly - or rather, don't
> now...]. We ourselves got snagged with this when we moved ISPs to
> Webfusion [now owned by Pipex] who have a 5Mb limit [but don't bother
> mentioning this anywhere in any of the pre-sales blurb]
>
> Just figure that such a thing would be useful in terms of future
> recommendations to customers.
>
> Thanks in advance of any pointers...
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
> David

5 to 10MB is pretty normal for most ISPs, I think.

That said, remember that email is not a file transfer mechanism. I think
it's probably time this customer gets an FTP site up and running... I do not
recommend running your own mail server with no limit. What happens when one
of your users tries to send out a 300MB Photoshop file? Watch your server,
and your other users, become very sad indeed.


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