I thought about allowing a much larger limit for outside destined email, but I was concerned about our users keeping the "SENT ITEM" copy and our mail stores growing ridiculously in size anyway.
From: Jonathan Link [mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 11:04 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: Best Practices for Attachment Size Limits Yes. Generally we're the recipient, though. In the case of sending, I've been told that the limit on sending (on our end is too onerous) so I just opened that up, too. 9 times out of ten they get the notification that the recipient has rejected it due to the size. But that moves it to something outside my control, and they know this. On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:54 AM, Mike O'Toole <m...@risingwoods.org<mailto:m...@risingwoods.org>> wrote: Doesn't the recipient have the last word on size? A user would like to send a 20mb file to say AOL.com but AOL's 3 mb limit would reject it. No change on your end can fix the recipients limit. Mike ----- Message from jonathan.l...@gmail.com<mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com> --------- Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 11:38:12 -0400 From: Jonathan Link <jonathan.l...@gmail.com<mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com>> Reply-To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues <exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com<mailto:exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>> Subject: Re: Best Practices for Attachment Size Limits To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues <exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com<mailto:exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com>> Coming to this late, I'd bump the send limit to probably 20 MB. I'd remove the receive limit entirely. But this is based on our industry. People send us huge documents all the time. We avoid having limits to deal with them. On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:21 AM, John Hornbuckle <john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us<mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us>> wrote: Thanks for the feedback, everyone. I think I may bump the limit up a bit, and also look into Accellion since several of you mentioned it. John > -----Original Message----- > From: John Hornbuckle > [mailto:john.hornbuc...@taylor.k12.fl.us<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<http://www.taylor.k12.fl.us> > > ----- End message from jonathan.l...@gmail.com<mailto:jonathan.l...@gmail.com> ----- --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com<mailto: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<mailto: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
