From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Mar 17 17:10: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D75314F8C for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 17:10:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from tdx.co.uk (lorca-tx.tdx.co.uk [195.188.177.242]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3/Kp) with ESMTP id BAA72840; Thu, 18 Mar 1999 01:09:32 GMT Message-ID: <36F0524C.757921FE@tdx.co.uk> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 01:09:32 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz Organization: TDX - The Digital eXchange X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Moran Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: E-Mail size limitation by ISPs References: <3.0.2.32.19990317161116.008b8c60@veronet.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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