Re: [SAGE] choosing the proper max SMTP message size

["Tom Limoncelli" <tal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I used to be very fascist about setting size limits on attachments.
I've changed my mind when I realized:

          Email is the "file system" for people that aren't geeks.
IMAP is NFS for your mom.

The problem is that increasing the size limit isn't much about
changing a setting in postfix or sendmail, but one must re-engineer
their entire system.  More bandwidth, much, much, larger disks on the
server.  Demand that the maker of your email client add features that
are "big attachment-aware" i.e. don't download an attachment until it
is needed, especially if you have road warriers with limited download
speed/time. (Gmail does attachment uploading in the background, which
I think is pretty cool.)

Email systems should de-dup attachments.  There's no reason to store
the same 50G file multiple times.  Even better would be for email
systems to store the attachment in a hidden URL and replace the
attachment with a link to that URL.  (I think Frank Wojcik was the
first to propose this idea).  Then all sorts of problems go away.

Tom