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    Why?

    Is it so hard to explain to users that they cant sent 30mb emails to people?

    Think I'm gonna lock our server down to 5mb and put a sarcastic message on the mail server..
    "E-mail, Electronic-Mail, not Electronic-Parcel Delivery, think before you send."

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    Haven't you got the latest teleport software installed? V0.9 beta. It has overcome the problem of the parcel splitting in half and ending up in different locations.... Can't wait for the first stable release - will transform internet shopping.

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    Can't you bounce it back to the sender?

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    we had some funny individual trying to get a 10 gb attachment into our exchange system at work, oh the tears of laughter...........
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    Quote Originally Posted by mort-uk
    Can't you bounce it back to the sender?
    Yeah, prolly gonna do that, tried to explain yesterday that a 32mb email was too big really so I uploaded the files to our FTP for the chap in china to grab at his own leasure, he seemed to understand this, well I tought he did, until he tried to send a 28mb email about half hour later...

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    What a divvy. Does he also use the cd tray to put his coffee on?
    Not around too often!

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    Quote Originally Posted by menthel
    What a divvy. Does he also use the cd tray to put his coffee on?

    That's a CD tray?
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    I can understand that. You said 32mb was too big, but you didn't tell him what was ok

    I don't look after any of our general IT anymore (just the DVD/Video Capture stuff and our sales database) but usually get asked about problems anyway. Half the problem isn't that they don't know not to send large emails, they just have no idea the file they want to send is huge.

    "What are you trying to send?"
    "Oh, just a word document, nothing big"
    "What's in the document?"
    "not a lot, just a couple of scans from the colour copier"
    riiiiiiiight! massive umcompressed full page A4 images inside a word document, of course, thats "nothing big"!

    I keep having to tell myself that IT is difficult and complicated with lots and lots of things to remember, much of which most people either are unable to get their head around or just unwilling to.

    but yeah, having said all that, users are generally stupid!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Xcelsion
    That's a CD tray?
    yeah you open it up and you can stack about 20 cds on it (depending on drive strength - usually rates upto 48x, 52x strength). dead handy

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    Quote Originally Posted by Funkstar
    I can understand that. You said 32mb was too big, but you didn't tell him what was ok
    Told him anything upto 5mb...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Monkey
    we had some funny individual trying to get a 10 gb attachment into our exchange system at work, oh the tears of laughter...........
    WTF!?!?

    Was someone trying to send their C drive as an attachment or something? They couldn't find the actually file they wanted to send, so they thought they'd send the lot just to be sure?

    MADNESS!!!!

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    Hmm, just put a full cup on my DVDRW... seems to be holding out well. Gonna leave it there for a while.

    /me Prays Windows doesn't decide to close the tray on it's own.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ajbrun
    MADNESS!!!!
    Like I said...

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    One of the first things I did at one place I worked at where we rebuilt the mail server (new hardware, new version of the software, excellent chance for a clean slate) was to set up all anti-spoofing (block incoming mail addressed from *@mycompany.com and outgoing mail other than from *@mycompany.com) and a mail limit of 10Mb with an auto-reply telling the user not to be so silly.

    A few days later I got asked by the dev team to up the limit because they "needed" to email around 50Mb of (unenrypted) source code to a 3rd party for review every week.
    That scared me, and prompted me to block anything that looked executable or source code (including inside zip files, even password-protected ones if they were silly enough to put the password in the message body).

    Another good tip is to reject mails with a ridiculous amount of recipients in the "To" and/or "CC" fields - marketing thought it would be a fantastic idea to send a mailshot to 1,000 of their customers and people who had expressed an interest in a product... by putting every single one of them on the "To" field.
    (Shortly after that we had some internal training on data protection )
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