On 03-Dec-98 Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> We see *messages* bigger than that. (10MB)
> The largest mailbox we have at present is 3GB.
Yes, so do we, sometimes. We still have a fair number of users who do
clever things like send (recent example) 35MB .avi files to many of
their friends and then expect all of them to be able to open their
mailboxes at the same time... the popper we use tends to get a bit
upset when it can't make the temp copy of the users' mailboxes; we end
up with Eudora timing out on large mailboxes in cases like this.
We are planning some rearrangement of resources in the near future so
will be moving the pop system onto a different box (much bigger & a lot
faster). Hopefully then some of the problems we get with mbox
(deliberately used, not abbreviated) sizes will go away.
One (associated) problem I came across recently was a user trying to
send a 50MB+ file to Compuserve, which wouldn't let it through. They
have a 3MB limit on message size, which doesn't seem a bad idea to me.
Anything over that size should really be moved by (say) FTP - call me
old fashioned but that's what I think.
Graeme
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Graeme Fowler
Network Officer, Infrastructure & Networks Group
Loughborough University Computing Services
+44 1509 228426
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