Many anti-spam systems have a limit on the size of files they scan - including those in archives. Don't know if this is AS or AV but if AS, quarantining or rejecting would seem to be an overreaction IMHO.
-----Original Message----- From: Jason Gurtz [mailto:jasongu...@npumail.com] Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2010 11:21 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: Slightly OT: Vipre for Email That's about as friendly as generic message size limits that nearly everyone seems to interpret as file size limits. (MIME overhead and all being what it is) Actually, this seems more egregious from a seat of the pants standpoint. What is the actual description Vipre uses for this size limit feature? Surely they should mean "message size" like everyone else and if they really do mean "file size" then it should be the native file size. The fact that the new formats happen to internally use zip compression should matter. What happens to a rar or 7z file that is renamed with a .txt extension? You are not supposed to know about renaming .docx to .zip after all. Well, for the purposes of this discussion anyway... ~JasonG P.S. Java .jar and .war files are the same in this regard. > -----Original Message----- > From: Cameron [mailto:cameron.orl...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 10:40 > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Slightly OT: Vipre for Email > > Good morning all! > > More an informational post than anything. > > Was it just me that didn't know that the new MS Office documents (.xlsx, > .docx, etc) were compressed files? > > Vipre for Exchange was trapping an 8mb .xlsx file even though the limit was > set to 50mb and saying that it was over the size when uncompressed. > So...Sunbelt Tech Support (which in my opinion rocks!) helped me to > determine that the actual file size was 54mbs..therefore being bounced. > > Who'd a thunk it. > > > Cheers, > Cameron > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt- > software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com > with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe exchangelist
