At my last gig we routinely received e-mail messages which were 200MB+.
5-10MB limits would have been laughed at. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dale Geoffrey Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 10:46 AM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: RE: need ammo
> 
> 
> IIRC, the 5MB limit comes from some Microsoft article I 
> remember reading a long time ago.  It could go back as far as 
> Microsoft Mail 3.5.  However, I have only heard discussion in 
> various Exchange groups, that 5-10MB seems to be the limit 
> (with exceptions, of course).
> 
> Geoff.......
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Scharff [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 11:38 AM
> To: Exchange Discussions
> Subject: RE: need ammo
> 
> 
> A quick check of 10 or so companies ESMTP compliant mail 
> servers didn't bear out the assertion that most companies 
> have a limit of 5MB on the IMS. Has someone actually done a 
> more comprehensive survey of IMS limits or was the 5MB number 
> an off the cuff statistic?
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Darryl Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 7:35 PM
> > To: Exchange Discussions
> > Subject: RE: need ammo
> > 
> > 
> > The general policy of most companies is 5MB limit of Internet 
> > inbound/Outbound messages. In my opinion, too many users think of 
> > email systems as being some panacean highway for any kind of data 
> > transmission no matter the threat or inconvenience to 
> others.  I have 
> > had nitwits send out large messages which got caught in a 
> nasty mail 
> > loop.  There is no easy answer but I recommend that you 
> approach this 
> > from a policy point of view.
> > 
> > Our policy here is 5MB.
> > No ifs or butts (pun intended).
> > 
> > D.
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andrey Fyodorov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 2:17 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
> > 
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