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Title: increasing attachment size quota in IMP mail
Post by: Mark W on November 24, 2002, 08:25:25 AM

Was wondering if there is a way of increasing attachment size quota in IMP mail
from 2 megs?

Mark

Title: Re: increasing attachment size quota in IMP mail
Post by: Darrell May on November 24, 2002, 08:37:53 AM

http://myezserver.com/downloads/mitel/howto/webmail-attachment-size-howto.html

Title: Re: increasing attachment size quota in IMP mail
Post by: Charlie Brady on November 25, 2002, 05:59:14 AM

Darrell May wrote:

> http://myezserver.com/downloads/mitel/howto/\
> webmail-attachment-size-howto.html

Darrell, it'd be a good idea if you updated that howto so that it only recommends installing my contrib e-smith-php if the system is older than 5.5. You might also add a license to the document - as it is, you haven't given anyone permission to reproduce it.

Regards

Charlie

Title: Re: increasing attachment size quota in IMP mail
Post by: Mark W on November 25, 2002, 06:37:19 AM

Hey Charlie,

I am running 5.5 actually , could you give me some advice on how to perform under 5.5?

Thanks,
Mark

Title: Re: increasing attachment size quota in IMP mail
Post by: guestHH on November 25, 2002, 09:03:35 AM

Charlie,

Can you explain a little bit about your contrib, or did i miss a 'read.me'?

Regards,
guestHH

Title: Re: increasing attachment size quota in IMP mail
Post by: Bill Talcott on November 25, 2002, 06:45:39 PM

Gee, it's too bad we don't have a list of questions that get asked a lot, and their corresponding answers...

http://www.e-smith.org/faq.php3#8q36

I realize that Darrell's is much more in-depth, but the FAQ should provide enough information to make it work, or at least provide a starting point for finding the whole answer.

Title: Re: increasing attachment size quota in IMP mail
Post by: Michael Maggard on November 26, 2002, 11:09:02 PM

Just a reminder that many mail servers will reject emails over a set size, often 2-2.5MB. So while your local server may happily accept the big email another one between you and the intended recipient(s) may well decline. Complicating this is that when binary attachments are encoded to text for transmission (a historical artifact) they can grow in size up to ~30%. Thus your 1.5MB attachment could well get rejected by other server with 2MB limits.

Thus a 2MB limit is a "good thing" and exceptions to it should be considered carefully and the possible repercussions explained to your user population. My own policy would be to keep the limit and for outside destinations offer to place large files in a webserver with an encoded URL. For internal messages I'd show the person how do the same with shared iBays and password-protected files.

However rarely have I seen an over-sized email that was truly important, couldn't be trivially be brought under 2MB by with some compression, or by dividing multiple files into smaller batches. For those that still absolutely *had* to be some enormous length few ever made it to their recipient or were appreciated when they filled up someone's Inbox.