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

[David Magda <dmagda@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 5, 2008, at 02:41, Brad Knowles wrote:

> That still leaves us with the technical issue of having to go in  
> and periodically increase the maximum message size that you  
> currently allow, unless you want to just turn off that feature and  
> encourage people to start sending their entire Blu-Ray or HD-DVD  
> collection by e-mail.  Or maybe their entire multi-terabyte system  
> backup images by e-mail.

This may sound funny, but people (try to) do this. We had developers  
who wanted to e-mail DVD installation ISOs to other developers over  
oceanic links via Outlook / Exchange. They found it didn't work so  
well and couldn't figure out why.