[wplug] Reasonable message size limit?

[Janos Dohanics]

On Thursday 24 April 2008 03:43:23 pm Patrick Wagstrom wrote:
> Bill Moran wrote:
> > In response to Janos Dohanics <web at 3dresearch.com>:
> >> Just wondering what is considered "reasonable" these days for message
> >> size limit? I saw a recommendation for 100-300 MB, and I thought that
> >> was very high.
> >
> > I agree.  I would figure 10 - 20M unless the client is paying special
> > for large attachment support.
>
> In most cases, you'll have to go with the default for most online mail
> services.
>
> Gmail - 20MB
> Yahoo - 10MB
> Hotmail - 10MB
>
> That being said, there still are many places with silly email policies that
> wonder why no one uses their service.  My undergrad, for example, still has
> a quota of 11MB for everything in your mailbox -- all your messages!
> That's the same quota they've had since 1992.
>
> --Patrick

10 MB may be small for the total mailbox size. Only I think that it's becoming 
a trend that people store many of their work related and large files in IMAP 
mailboxes, and it doesn't seem to me a good way to "organize" ones work...

-- 
Janos Dohanics