Slightly off-topic question but very useful one

[Jim Howell]

At 10:26 AM 10/24/2003 -0400, Ken Murchison 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.

Hi,
      I agree but people complain about the effort to setup the file 
transfer vs email..  Sigh..  The complaint is more about the filesizes than 
the quota, I just thought I'd kill two birds with one mailfile.. :)
Jim


>A 200MB quota seems more than generous, except for the fact that you're 
>allowing them to reach their quota with only 2 messages.  Perhaps allowing 
>the users to "misuse" their email account in this way is what is causing 
>the complaints?
>
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Jim Howell
CIT Messaging Systems Manager
Cornell University
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Email: jwh2 at cornell.edu
Phone: 607-255-9369