We have 4MB across the board. We were originally looking at 2, 4 and 6MB limits. To reach that number we logged all of our internet mail for two weeks, and found out that only 0.08% of the entire message volume was over 4MB (that is about 300 messages a week for us). And, only about 10 of those were actually business related and those were sent by a certain group of people. That means that setting the limit at 4MB would impact only a miniscule amount of messages. That was acceptable impact for management. We ended up making an exception for that group (10MB) and now we do have a working message size limit.
Setting a limit after a study like that felt a lot better than pulling a number out of you know where. Serdar Soysal -----Original Message----- From: Jasa, Ken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 3:01 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Reasonable message size limits Hello, I have been required to raise the message size limit on all connections to 20Mbs. We have already seen it cause problems across one of our links. I know it is dependent on the bandwidth and hardware. I just wanted to get some ideas of what size limits other companies are using. Thanks. Ken Jasa Messaging Manager Weber Shandwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
