> I have asked this before, but wanted to check.  A user is receiving this;
> I don't like huge messages going out, but am sure to be told that "it did
> not used to be this way".  Actually, since the mail service on campus is
> MS Office 365, I'd say it was them, but the error ids our list server.
> What is the typical max you are allowing?  --Joe

My largest size limits are 300K.

This would obviously be intolerable if my lists weren't configured to strip
HTML. Some years back, Microsoft decided that
- the default Outlook mail client would be Word; and
- Word would attempt to use HTML as a document-control language.
The resulting HTML, packed with line-by-line detailed font definitions and
such garbage, expanded even small messages to huge proportions. And the more
of this junk went through the lists, the more subscribers would exceed their
mailbox storage limits and start bouncing mail.

I have expanded my size limits from the original 100K (eleven years ago) to
allow for more varied content and the rarity of small mailbox limits. But at
300K, I have not seen a message bounced because of the size limit. I do
still get subscribers hitting storage limits.

If people are mailing high-resolution photos through your list, obviously my
limits won't do for you. The same goes for groups that don't have a website
where they can post large files for general distribution. But distributing
large items via email is, and always will be, inefficient, because a
one-third increase in attachment size is built into the way email works.

Hal Keen


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