Re: limiting email sizes when sending files

[Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au>]

lee wrote:
> "John A. Sullivan III" <jsullivan@opensourcedevel.com> writes:
>
> > If it is of any help, we are just about finished with an enhancement to
> > the mailscanner and zendto projects where mailscanner can be optionally
> > configured to detect emails larger than a given size, send the
> > attachments to ZendTo (a dropbox like server) and rewrite the email to
> > contain a link to pick up the files.
>
> That's nice if the senders don't mind their files put on a web server
> and if the recipients don't refuse to download them.  Are the files at
> least protected by passwords, and do the senders get a notification with
> a way to delete their files?

I've toyed with the same idea and I take your points about file deletion 
as well.  It's not uncommon to see the same file transferred to many 
recipients when such file is much better placed on a company website. 
You can also track downloads of documents from a website, then you get a 
better idea of whom and how many people were interested enough to look 
at the file in question -- throw it blindly at an email end user and you 
are more likely to see it discarded than looked over properly.

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Kind Regards
AndrewM

Andrew McGlashan
Broadband Solutions now including VoIP