That was an example; there are several people here with the same situation (often the same emails). This may be my Exchange ignorance, as I am far, far, far from being an Exchange expert, but when I tried to do that it seemed as though messages coming in from the outside were still being blocked if they exceeded the global setting, although internal messages between people with the higher limits went through OK.
Ralph ________________________________ From: Carol Fee [mailto:c...@massbar.org] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 2:04 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: what is your maximum message size in exchange 2007 Why don't you just set the size limit higher on her mailbox only ? CFee ________________________________ From: Ralph Smith [mailto:m...@gatewayindustries.org] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 1:55 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: what is your maximum message size in exchange 2007 And being the non-technical buyer he is, he says, no problem, I'll just stick with the methods and vendors I know. We can't even get a foot in the door because we asked him to do something a little different. Don't get me wrong, I prefer not to use Exchange as a FTP server, and I still have a 15 meg limit on incoming and a 10 meg limit on outgoing messages. My point is that sometimes what is best and easiest, and makes the most sense to us, isn't always seen that way by people outside the company that we have little ability to influence. So each organization has to make that call for themselves. Another example of why message size restrictions can be a problem: My CEO gets several messages a week ranging from 10 to 13 megs from various government agencies. She needs to receive these messages, and the senders are sending them out to numerous different agencies at once, so there is zero chance of getting them to do anything differently. So we make adjustments on our rules, increasing the incoming limit from 10 15 MB. I know at some point she is going to be vexed because she didn't get a 16 or 17 MB message, and I'll be upping the limit again. ________________________________ From: Don Andrews [mailto:don.andr...@safeway.com] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 1:18 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: what is your maximum message size in exchange 2007 We'd say, here, use this - it's easy and a better method of transferring files. ________________________________ From: Ralph Smith [mailto:m...@gatewayindustries.org] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 10:02 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: what is your maximum message size in exchange 2007 We had a situation where a salesperson was trying to get a new customer. The potential customer wanted to send a 15 meg attachment with the product specs to our salesperson so we could get a quote back to him. His email was bounced because of the attachment size limit. We asked him to upload it to our FTP server, but he didn't want to do it. Now our rules are making it difficult for him, and he starts getting the feeling we are hard to work with. So do we relax our message size limit, or lose a sale? ________________________________ From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 12:54 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: what is your maximum message size in exchange 2007 Like I said, setup and used properly FTP is much easier for everyone. We have our users trained on how to upload to our FTP site, note the url for the file and send the url to the person that wants the file via email. You're not asking the VP of Advertising for Eaton Corp to use FTP, they are just clicking on a link in an email. On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Kennedy, Jim <kennedy...@elyriaschools.org> wrote: We were never too keen on asking customers to deal with FTP. For example the VP of Advertising for Eaton Corp or the CEO of Forest City Enterprises is just not someone you would tell had to use FTP. From: Sherry Abercrombie [mailto:saber...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 12:41 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: what is your maximum message size in exchange 2007 That's what FTP is for, File Transfer Protocol, Exchange is an email/calendering application. Setup and used properly, FTP is much more secure than email. On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Kennedy, Jim <kennedy...@elyriaschools.org> wrote: Do they need larger attachments to do their job? If yes, then either you are being unreasonable or your company is being unreasonable by not providing you the budget to support the needed size. Attachment size is a business decision and then IT should have the budget to provide that business need. I worked at an advertising agency in the past. Big attachments flying around helped them work better and faster and the company gave me the money to make it work, so I gave it to them. It was also real nice to know that every attachment bounce that came in was the result of the outside sender/recipient rather than me. It made answering that question nice and easy. > -----Original Message----- > From: Dennis Melahn [mailto:den...@advancedav.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 12:24 PM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: what is your maximum message size in exchange 2007 > > Was just curious if I was being unreasonable to my Sales department > with my firm stand on 10 meg. > > Thanks, > Dennis > > > ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ > ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ ~ Ninja Email Security with Cloudmark Spam Engine Gets Image Spam ~ ~ http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Ninja ~ -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. Clarke Sent from Haslet, TX, United States -- Sherry Abercrombie "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Arthur C. 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