[AusNOG] Straw poll: what is your email message size limit?

Joseph Goldman joe at apcs.com.au
Tue Mar 26 12:31:46 EST 2013


Remote** delivery, not remove delivery sorry!

On 26/03/13 12:30 PM, Joseph Goldman wrote:
> What is the point of raising it?
>
> I've had a server with larger then 10mb size limit on it before, but 
> it started generating support calls as the receiving end would be 
> bouncing back (or worse yet, discarding the message). Are you taking 
> these support calls on the chin as they occur? My thought on the 
> process would be you'd need an 'internet wide' support and change-over 
> at a single point in time to have it work perfectly.
>
> I'm talking about remove delivery exclusively, obviously if they are 
> sending between servers you own only, then it'd be much easier to manage.
>
> On 26/03/13 12:23 PM, Robert Hudson wrote:
>>
>> Currently 10MB, moving to 25MB shortly.
>>
>> Mailbox size limits moving from 1.5GB to 25GB.
>>
>> On 26/03/2013 11:57 AM, "Paul Gear" <ausnog at libertysys.com.au 
>> <mailto:ausnog at libertysys.com.au>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hi all,
>>
>>     We have high-up non-technical people in our organisation asking
>>     for a higher email message size limit.  (Ours is set to 10 Mb,
>>     which is the most common limit i've seen.)  We've explained that
>>     increasing our email system's limit won't solve the problem if
>>     every other mail system has a similar limit, but the message
>>     isn't getting through.
>>
>>     If you have the information at your disposal, would you kindly
>>     reply off-list with your current email size limit?  I'm happy to
>>     summarise the results for the list.
>>
>>     If there's a better place to ask this, or if someone has already
>>     collated this data for most Australian ISPs, please feel free to
>>     point me to the right place.
>>
>>     Thanks in advance,
>>     Paul
>>
>>     P.S. I'll be asking the same question to SAGE-AU shortly, so if
>>     you're on both lists, apologies for the repetition, and feel free
>>     to delete one of them. :-)
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