Re: Request (was [EXIM] POP)

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Author: Paul Mansfield
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Subject: Re: Request (was [EXIM] POP)

On Thu, 3 Dec 1998 G.E.Fowler@??? is believed to have written:
> 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


I believe that the Intermail system from Software.com has some clever features
for de-duping the mail system so that it only stores one copy of a specific
message.

They have some very big installations in use and it looks pretty good, although
of course its more expensive than freeware.

Paul


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