Well, actually, I run Exim (and before that Sendmail) with no incoming size
limit, because we are a commercial printer and have many clients that email
jobs to us, which can easily be 20-30M messages. So far no major spam
problems...
Brad Mohning wrote:
>
> >
> > IMHSHO for mail traversing external ``public'' networks anything more
> ^^^^^^
> Don't know what that is but....
>
> > than about 1MB should be considered very excessive. 100KB should be
> > more than enough in fact, at least until 99% of the world has better
> > than 56KB connectivity or better.
>
> ...AMEN to that!
>
> We set ours to 1MB, both internally and externally, because we have an old cc:mail gateway that will crash with anything larger. And yes, we constantly get "requests" to increase the limit.
>
> I shudder to imagine the kind of SPAM that can get sent in a 16MB message limit.
>
> -- brad
>
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