RE: [cobalt-users] Email size limit

["Pablo Jejcic" <pablo.jejcic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

WOW!!! That was very good...

The guy is using FTP for almost everything, but unfortunally, the other end
is very close and they don't allow ftp/ssh connections, and they only allow
"email kind" connections, we even thought about putting the file on the web
and give him a user id and passwd to download it, but the other end wasn't
happy with it.
	
I've just change the limit, for this occasion only, and I'll turn it back to
5 MB in a few days.

Thanks for the knowledge and the advises.-

Cheers!

Pablo.-

->-----Original Message-----
->From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
->[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
->David J. Duffner - NWCWEB.com
->Sent: 18 March 2004 15:47
->To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
->Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Email size limit
->
->
->>-----Original Message-----
->>From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
->>[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Pablo Jejcic
->>Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 9:54 AM
->>To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
->>Subject: [cobalt-users] Email size limit
->>
->>
->>Hello....
->>	One of my users is trying to send emails quite big
->>(10-15 Mb) trough the email, and he allways receive a message
->>than the server reject them because it is more than 5MB...
->>
->>	I looked into the sendmail.cf, and I couldn't find 
->anything that says 
->>a limit o 5MB or anything...
->
->	Dan's point to the Control Panel is the best place
->to adjust the setting, but there's a basic principal to 
->be considered as well...
->
->	Most e-mail accounts are set to receive no more than
->5MB at best, many popular commercial accounts are set to 
->an average of 2MB.  Depends on where your RaQ is hosted or 
->located as to the speed of transferring these e-mails, even 
->if both parties have a broadband connection.
->	
->	Our experience with the RaQ, even though we've moved
->on to an Ensim box, was that pushing that limit beyond 5MB 
->resulted in poor performance and POP servers timing out 
->before the mail could be either sent up or delivered.  And
->it leaves a door open for anyone who figures out your high 
->limit to attempt e-mail worms that jam your box(es) with 
->large attachment e-mails that can also reduce performance.
->
->	Personally, we've kept the 5MB max limit on either OS
->and suggest the clients send a normal e-mail with the 
->attachments of over 3-4 MB placed in an FTP section for the 
->receiver to grab as they see fit.  Transfer speed is better 
->on files of that size and if this is just one user they can 
->use their personal webspace to store them.
->
->	One last note, you have to over-compensate by a small
->bit over the max size of the e-mail to allow for the headers 
->and such to pass as well.  We had someone trying to send a 
->5MB attachment in an e-mail and it was rejected as the main 
->e-mail portion kicked it over the limit by a mere 20K.  
->
->	Just some thoughts to contemplate...
->
->      David J. Duffner
->      VP Operations
->      NWC Corporation
->      NWCWEB.com
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