On Friday 24 October 2003 08:44 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 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...
I'm gonna chime in under this heading too.... As an administrator I find that oftentimes there *is* a method in place for this sort of thing but it just doesn't seem to come to mind to the user until I grab the user's hand and guide his mouse movements to the big shiny SMB share icons on his desktop... --Jo
