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

In total agreement. Main issue is that [particularly non-technical] users
are *far* more comfy using email than FTP to transfer files. Some can just
about get their heads around sticking an attachment onto an email but FTP
transfer is something they don't want to get into. I know, I know its a
training issue but unfortunately its to do with our customer's customers so
we have no way of 'forcing' them to train up.

David


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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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