We have a 20MB attachment limit and an Accellion FTA to securely transfer files larger than that. Biggest problem: MIME overhead. People say "you said it's 20MB but it won't go through". So, we have to explain that depending on the type of file even an 18MB Excel might surpass 20MB with MIME overhead.
We have 2GB mailbox quota limits. > -----Original Message----- > From: John Hornbuckle [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us] > Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2011 11:35 AM > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues > Subject: Best Practices for Attachment Size Limits > > We have the standard 10-meg attachment size limit in place, and I was > wondering if we should reconsider. It actually doesn't seem to cause much of > a problem, but periodically we have a situation where someone is trying to > send/receive a file that's too big. > > There were two main reasons for the limit. > > One is that e-mail isn't a particularly efficient method for transferring > files, so > big files should be transferred some other way. But in this day and age, is 10 > MB considered "big" anymore? > > The second reason is that big files will fill up users' mailboxes quickly, > and our > users have 250 MB quotas. Although the fact that I don't too often hear > complaints about the 10 MB limit makes me think users aren't > sending/receiving files of that size very often anyway--so the mailbox size > may not be a problem if I bump up the attachment size limit. > > I know situations vary from enterprise to enterprise, but I'm looking for > general best practices and pros/cons to increasing the limit. > > > > John Hornbuckle, MSMIS, PMP > MIS Department > Taylor County School District > www.taylor.k12.fl.us > > > --- > 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
