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Re: [SAGE] choosing the proper max SMTP message size

To: "a42n8k9 dejazzd.com" <a42n8k9@xxxxxxxxxxx>, sage-members <sage-members@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [SAGE] choosing the proper max SMTP message size
From: Brad Knowles <brad@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 21:00:12 -0600
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On 1/2/08, a42n8k9 dejazzd.com wrote:

                                                          It's just that
 I have been asked to come up with a permanent solution so we don't have
 the problem or help desk calls any more.

There is no permanent solution. Whatever is just big enough todaywill not be big enough tomorrow, and whatever is way too big todaymay be just big enough tomorrow.

This number will keep going up so long as morons keep treating e-mailas a transport mechanism for 500MB PowerPoint slides that have to besent to every single employee in the company -- all 100,000 of them.

                                         I'm curious about what most
 sites set the max SMTP message size to and how problems like this have
 been overcome or worked around.

When I was the Sr. Internet Mail Admin for AOL, we started out at2MB. By the time I left more than two years later, it was 10MB. Andthe number kept getting bigger and bigger.


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