You'll find that with large messages of that size, you may be fielding calls from remote users who can't understand why, when they dial in, their email takes a couple hours to download. Explaining to them that they have several large attachments waiting for them usually sufficiently frustrates them into seeing your point of view (provided you only provide dial-up services for remote users).
Its all a matter of user training. Typical users don't have any clue that there's a better way to transfer files, not only externally, but internally. Once you explain FTP, or even file shares, to them, it usually helps the problem. If you don't happen to be using Enterprise version, and you have a bunch of packrats, you may find that with larger attachment sizes, you'll fill up your IS rather quickly - happened to us with only a couple hundred users. Convincing people not to send email is much easier than convicing them to delete email already sent. John J. Steniger Network and Security Manager Familymeds, Inc. Phone: 860-676-1222 X633 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.familymeds.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrey Fyodorov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 5:17 PM > To: Exchange Discussions > Subject: need ammo > > > Hi all. > > I have this customer who is unhappy about 10MB message limit > size on SMTP connectors in our shared Exchange environment. > > Does anyone have any scary stories about what happens when > people try to send too many messages that are too large? What > is a reasonable size for SMTP message? > > Our servers originally had higher limits but a few times > large SMTP messages crashed the servers. > > I just need to convince this customer that it is not a good > idea to send large messages. > > Thanks! > > Andrey Fyodorov > > _________________________________________________________________ > 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]
