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

[John Lindsay]

Generally it's the C-level execs who find themselves sending large spreadsheets and presentations around.

They decide if you're getting a raise.

Work out what they need.

jsl

On 26/03/2013, at 12:02 PM, "Ed Hallett" <ed at teltech.net.au<mailto:ed at teltech.net.au>> wrote:

This may not be the best forum for this… But I’m actually looking at reducing email size limits to force users into using technologies designed for file sharing and governance – Sharepoint, Skydrive Pro, etc. Reducing limits to 5MB has all sorts of flow on effects – not even talking about freeing up link bandwidth, Exchange store sizes, etc.

I’ve found that email enables poor habits.. Emailing a 10MB doc to the user 2 rooms down via a hosted exchange? Floods the link twice, plus stores the attachment in your local OST, the recipients local OST, and two copies in the exchange store. Now, modify it, and send it back. Ouch.

My 2c.
Kind regards,
Ed

From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net<mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net> [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Robert Hudson
Sent: Tuesday, 26 March 2013 12:24 PM
To: Paul Gear
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net<mailto:ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Straw poll: what is your email message size limit?


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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