Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 01:09:32 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: Michael Moran <mmoran@veronet.net> Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: E-Mail size limitation by ISPs Message-ID: <36F0524C.757921FE@tdx.co.uk> References: <3.0.2.32.19990317161116.008b8c60@veronet.net>
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Michael Moran wrote: > > Are ISPs out there limiting the size of e-mail messages and its file > attachments? > > If so, what are their size of limitation? and reasons? Some do, some don't... For example we do... To around 10Mb, we figure after having a few people try to email our customers (who at best connect with ISDN 64k) with 200Mb attachments, it's saves our system from running out of space - and the end user from phoning up with "I can't pickup my mail, your service is crap" type statements (after having waited 5 minutes for their 'Checking Email now' dialogs to clear)... We publicly announce the limit as 10mb, and encourage our customers who have a problem with this to contact us... If someone did make it apparent it was a problem, we'd probably up it - though I doubt we'd ever let it run free as it did before - It's just too much of a risk in this day and age (with massive files generated by huge programs being sent via UUencoded / MIME mail ;-) So far no one has complained... Though we've had a number of complaints about AOL's limits for External -> Internal (AOL) mail... (which AFAIK is around 1.3 or 3Mbs? :-) -Kp To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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