That brings to mind a customer who had his Family Owned & Staffed
company all get the complete series of cartoons from joecartoon.com. All of
their accounts timed out when they tried to pull their mail. Some cousin
sent the same message with all of the cartoon files attached.
If I might offer another alternative for companies that run their own
web sites (i.e. create their own web pages). They can create a web page
with a download link if they need to transfer large files regularly. They
can then set the appropriate level of security and allow access as they deem
fit. They're in control and the mail server is no longer involved.
Kevin Childers
Mail Administrator
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Rich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 7:59 AM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Large email attachments - pros & cons
> For our broadband users, it isn't that big of a problem. For our dial up
> users, con, con, con. Without fail, boyfriend, girlfriend or grandma who
> has a broadband connection will send someone five or six messages a day
that
> are huge. Then we have to deal with the customer who thinks their Email
is
> locked up and dump the connection and wind up with a corrupted mailbox.
>
> With Imail, it's relatively easy to have the user go into Web Email and
> delete the offending message, then continue the mail download. But it
still
> doesn't resolve the problem. What everyone needs is a system like AOL has
> called "You have pictures." I suppose someone could develop a alias
system
> where key words could be found in a message, or subject line, that would
> load these pictures onto a web page for the customer to view and download.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.kendra.com
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Hedgeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2000 9:05 PM
> Subject: [IMail Forum] Large email attachments - pros & cons
>
>
> > Can I get some feedback / thoughts on large email attachments? Besides
the
> > fact that the user usually gets impatient and thinks the mail system is
> > broke while a 10MB file is being attached and sent, do they eat up mail
> > server CPU cycles; are they Ram intensive? I have a small number of
email
> > users, the majority on a decent sized connection not dialup, and some
need
> > to send large attachments. I understand that email is not the best way
to
> > transport large files, but I don't want to get into creating ftp sites
and
> > educating a user on how to do it. They'll just complain that they
already
> > have email, why can't they use it. I already limit their individual
> > mailboxes to 10Mbs and set their client to download locally. I intend to
> > test with Perf Mon this week to see network reactions.....
> >
> > Of course, if I do give them FTP, I get to charge for it.....
> >
> > Peter Hedgeman
> > Online Systems Integration
> > "Helping companies get back to business..."
> > www.olsi.com
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
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