Email Attachment Limits

[Guest Frank]

Are there any limits other than total disk space to Email attachment size. I am priamrily interested in incoming but if you have outgoing handy that would be great.

[Ayman_]

You set the size of your email accounts in Cpanel. There is a standard 2MB file size limit with most ISP and there port 25 SMTP prots.

 

Sending email attachements really slows down the servers, just remember that.

[Guest Frank]

You set the size of your email accounts in Cpanel.  There is a standard 2MB file size limit with most ISP and there port 25 SMTP prots.

 

Sending email attachements really slows down the servers, just remember that.

Thanks. I am not a customer yet, so I guess I should have gone to the pre sales forum but I will continue the thread here.

 

To ensure I read you right, Email attachment size is only limited by the amount of disk space alloted to that account through Cpanel which I assume is the "control panel" of sorts.

 

For my own edification is sending large files via FTP "easier" on the servers? I find when dealing with some people, the Email attachment method is the path of least resistance. [ but then again FTP isn't that hard]

 

Also is this a new board? I do not see too much acitivity.

 

Thanks again for your help.

 

BTW as a sales tool this board is pretty cool. It gives the prospect some idera of the support he is going to get. And since it is a board he can see history; response times, answers etc.

Also the Cpanel (I think that's what it was) demo was also a very good touch. Again it gives the user a sense of what he is in for. IE how complicated are the user interfaces, what does a poor dude have to do just to set up his email account, etc. Of course this under the assumption they work. (that's supposed to be a clickable smile, but I'm probably doing something wrong.)

 

See ya later.

Edited October 2, 2003 by borfast

[Head Guru]

Frank,

 

The FTP protocol is much easier on server loads than loading the ensim email server.

 

When sending email attachments the worry is always the other side. What size is the receiver allowed to get. Vice Versa, when you are getting attachments its the same boat. The person on the other end is limited in what they can send. The ISP limits them or the hosting co. does. It just makes much more sense to send files via FTP.

 

If FTP is an issue you can always just let them download from the HTTP side of your account. Always many ways to skin that cat eh frank?

 

This board is new only a couple weeks old in fact.

 

Feel free to ask as many ?'s as you like.