[AusNOG] Current "Best Practice" WRT email size

[Mark Newton]

On Nov 26, 2015, at 1:54 PM, Ross Wheeler <ausnog at rossw.net> wrote:

>> Is there any specific reason why you couldn’t update it to 1 Gbyte?
> 
> My real gripe (about email size caused issues) actually stems from the collection side. I'm not interested in a p!ssing contest about pop vs imap, but for largely historical reasons the vast majority of my customers are using pop3. Some of them are so important they feel the need to check for mail every minute. These are probably the same ones with a gigabyte of email sitting on the server. Copying the mail drop and parsing for these mailboxes IS a resource hog.

That sounds more like a mailbox quota issue than an SMTP maximum message size limit issue.

(and a POP3 problem)

  - mark