Just for $hits and giggles, I took the original file (8mbs - which unzipped to 54mbs) and saved it as Excel 2003 compatible....16mbs..
On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 2:29 PM, Don Andrews <don.andr...@safeway.com>wrote: > 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 > > --- 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
