[Box-Admins] Legitimate Attachment Size

[Chris Muller]

What's the limit now?

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:22 PM, Casey Ransberger
<casey.obrien.r at gmail.com> wrote:
> While I was clearing out the spam queue (which, due to survival obligations, I can't do as much as I'd like to) I found that all of the messages in the queue which were legitimate were being blocked because of size-of-message. Usually the culprit was attached MC stuff, and it was usually some number of K over the limit.
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> To my mind, if MC package updates attached to email messages wherein authors want feedback are getting stuck in the spam queue, we have probably two issues:
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> 1) MC archives are fatty.
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> 2) Since we need to be able to shuffle them around, as well as whole images, our limbo bar isn't tall enough for our current data needs.
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> I haven't looked into it yet, but I'd bet we can modify the size of an acceptable message. I have a personal feeling that we ought to double it. The maximum probably hasn't been looked at for at least one Moore's storage/bandwidth cycle.
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> Thoughts? I'd particularly like to hear from folks who have Mailman experience. And all Box-Admins for good measure.
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> Sorry to pick on you: Ken, Randal.
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> Just a thought, feel free to shoot me down,
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> C