> Jim Howell wrote: > >> Hi, >> I apologize for this off-topic question but I think we will all >> find this useful. What mailfile size limits do folks support and the >> user mailbox quota size? We are being told by some of our users that we >> are too restrictive. Here at Cornell we allow 15MB mailfiles from 8am >> to 6pm and 100MB mailfiles from 6pm to 8am. > > Wow! If you have users complaining about 15MB, let alone 100MB, you > probably need to teach them that email isn't a file transfer protocol > ;) If somebody needs to send a file that large, they should be emailing > the link, and not the file. >
I'm going to chime in here as a "joe user". Most IT environments do not provide a "File Transfer Protocol" to the users which might be appropriate for transfer of data between departments, buildings, organizations, or even companies/universities... If you first solve that problem, then you might be able to address this (secondary) problem of people using SMTP instead of FTP. As a not-so joe user... You might consider a process whereby all attachments are stripped off the email and dumped to a directory structure for that end recipient. Now you can establish two quotas (mailbox/mailfize and directory/disk) to strike a balance between email and files.
