I have the single max message size set to 6 meg in Imail and I consistently have users try to send messages over that size. Even with this setting Imail goes ahead and queues the entire message, whatever the size, then decides that it is over the limit and deletes it. The message never leaves the users outbox, so in 5 or 10 minutes or whatever they have their send/receive set to, it tries to send again and the whole process starts over again. This is a pretty big drain on my bandwidth. One user on a T-1 sucked up over 50GB of traffic over the course of about 2 weeks before I caught it by looking at my bandwidth traffic logs. He used a continuous 500kbs for almost 2 weeks trying to send his emails. They emailed a bunch of photos (20 meg), hit the send button and left for Christmas vacation. We tend to service photographers and digital artists, so unfortunately this is a common occurrence.
Is there any other way to have Imail manage this? Is it reasonable to have a 6 meg limit on single messages? Do the majority of email servers have message size limits or are they wide open? Maybe I would better off bandwidth wise to eliminate the restriction and just let them go through. I wonder though if the servers they are sending to will reject them, thus recreating the problem. Any ideas? Dan Spangenberg To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
