On Mon, 4 Feb 2002 13:40:59 -0800
begin Bill Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spewed forth:
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 04:11:22PM -0500, David A. Bandel wrote:
> ...
> >There are one or two pop3 servers (cucipop comes to mind) that will
> >exhibit this behavior when an e-mail is larger than 2Mb. But if that's
> >the case, you have idiots working in the ISP who should limit incoming
> >mail (sendmail will do this) to under 2Mb in size but haven't.
>
> While I agree with the sentiment, it doesn't work in the Real World(tm)
> where customers insist on using e-mail to do file transfers instead of
> ftp. They bitch like crazy with 2MB limits, and many ISPs kick this up
> to 8MB or so. I don't know how many times I've gotten calls where some
> idiot's mailed the family photo album as a Word document full of BMP
> attachments. Then they wondered why they could never retrieve their mail
> from the server-- even it it's on the same LAN! The last time I had to
> fix one of these, the user's mailbox was well over 100MB, and contained
> three copies of the same 33MB message.
Been there. Done that. Got the t-shirt. Not all pop3 servers exhibit
this behavior, so a better pop3 server is needed. Guys that work at ISPs
really should have a clue, but ... I've been working with one here whose
network guy doesn't understand the importance of the proper netmask on a
router. Go figure.
I have a very large client that sends equally large (mostly autocad files)
attachments. And when the network goes down from here to Sweden (their
headquarters), and folks are sending each other 9Mb mp3's as well as all
the large autocad files, the predictable always happens. I've rescued
them twice, and both times expanded their /var filesystem. But it will
happen again next time the transatlantic line goes down in the middle of
the morning. I bet even the 20Gb /var they now have will fill (largest
disk drive I could get on short notice). That's up from the 9Gb one I put
on the first time (their original install was done by their first
administrator who only put a 300Mb /var filesystem in on a dedicated
e-mail server with 100+ engineers using it). Fortunately, they don't have
one of those silly limited pop3 servers or they'd have had two nightmares.
Ciao,
David A. Bandel
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