Mailbox limits generally prevent that in our org. On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Robert Peterson <robert.peter...@prin.edu>wrote:
> 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> > 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 --------- > Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 11:38:12 -0400 > From: Jonathan Link <jonathan.l...@gmail.com> > Reply-To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues < > exchangelist@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> > Subject: Re: Best Practices for Attachment Size Limits > To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues < > 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> 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] > > 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 > > > > **** > > ----- End message from 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 > 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
