At 11:00 AM 1/3/2002 -0800, you wrote: >Dave Reed wrote: > > > > > > I've seen it cripple a Solaris mail server when someone (on the IT > > staff no less, but not the person in charge of the Unix machines) > >I can sympathize with this situation. I'm actually the VP of Ops at our >company. I've also defaulted to doing the Linux sysadmin (pretty scary >for us!). Our real IT crew is so totally Windows that it's not even >funny. And the biggest perp on the huge e-mail attachments is our >President (who uses Outlook). But back to the technical problem, how >does sending e-mails to multiple people eat up more bandwidth than >placing the e-mail in a directory for download? Assuming that all of >the recipients of the e-mail are interested in reading the attachment, >it seems to me that both scenarios would consume the same bandwidth. >No? Thanks,
The bandwidth effects would be approximately the same for internal users, but the storage requirements still go up since one copy would be in each recipients mailbox. Another problem is that the mail server would slow down as it handled access by multiple users. Slow file servers are one thing. Slow mail servers are a high-visibility problem. There is also the fact that, regardless of the feelings of the sender, many recipients will not be interested in the attachment and will not download it. Tony -- Anthony E. Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP Key: 0x6C94239D AOL/Yahoo Chat: TonyG05 Linux. the choice of a GNU generation. <http://www.linux.org/> _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
