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Why do we still have such small email attachment filesize restrictions?

What's the technical limitation preventing us, in the glorious year 2011, from emailing each other 1GB files? Or is it just the main email platforms dragging their feet? If I can set my inbox to grab headers only, and then full attachments if I want…
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Changing the maximum mail size in Postfix

When sending large email to a new CentOS6 server running Postfix as the MTA, the following message is returned: tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the recipient domain. We recommend contacting the other email provider for further…
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How to block attachments on incoming mails only using Postfix?

I have a mail server (CentOS 6.5) running Postfix and Dovecot Postfix is listening on port 25 for inbound mail and 587 for outbound mail The problem is outbound mail with pdf attachments are being blocked where I only want inbound mail with pdf…
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DPM server 2010 Attach agent error : administrator privileges missing?

I’m hoping you would be able to help me out with this little problem I’m having. I installed DPM 2010 in our test environment to test backups on Exchange 2010 servers. The environment includes : 1xDC 2x Exchange Server 2010 1x DPM 2010…
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Send email on behalf of clients

We're a communications company primarily doing printing of statements / utility bills, then mailing them out in the post. A few clients have asked for e-Delivery. Pretty much take the print output as a PDF, and instead of printing and mailing, email…
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uuencoded mail attachments display as binary code

I have run into a attachment display issue at a client who has recently switched from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010. The issue was initially perceived as affecting only Mac OS X email clients (Outlook 2011 and Mac OS Mail) and iOS clients. After…
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Email Attachment Size Limits

Given I have plenty of disk space to work with, what are some technical considerations that I need to consider when configuring email attachment size limits?
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Demanding your clients to change extensions from .zip to .txt for mail attachments

A company we are working with has a few ridiculous security measures. One of them goes like this: You cannot e-mail us .zip files. If you want to transmit a .zip file, rename it to .txt. IMHO, there is no good reason for this. I can only see two…
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How do I format a text file for IIS Mailroot Pickup so that it sends an e-mail with attachments?

How do I need to format a text file so that it can be read by an SMTP service to send an e-mail that has an attachment? We have a server where we are using II6 SMTP to send mail from a Pickup folder. The goal is to drop a properly formatted text…
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What's the largest message size modern email systems generally support?

I know that Yahoo and Google mail support 25MB email attachments. I have an idea from somewhere that 10MB email messages are generally supported by modern email systems. So if I'm sending an email between two arbitrary users on the internet, what's…
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Sending an email with attachments from the results of a cron job

I have a cron job that generates text files. I'd like these files to be sent as attachments to an email address. It's important that they show up as attachments in a multi-part MIME message and not just as text in the body of the email. I have read…
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Exchange: Different Max Attachment Size For Email within the Domain

Can I set a different max attachment size based on where the email send / received from. I would like it so internal emails, within the domain, can not be as larger as emails being sent to and from other domains. My logic is that I would like the…
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Cannot attach large attachments although server settings would permit that

we're currently have some weird issue with our organization's Exchange Server 2010: Although on the server the attachment size is set to 55000000 bytes in the web.config file for OWA, users cannot attach files larger than approx. 25 MB. Here's some…
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Exchange transport rule to remove attachments

What is the best method to remove attachments from outgoing emails using Exchange? I need to apply the rule only to messages going to one specific email address. And I need to strip off all attachments except for one specific extension.
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Scripts or tools to parse email message to remove attachment of particular name

I have configured Redmine email integration and while it's awesome, a major annoyance is that people have signatures that include a company logo, which then gets posted to every ticket they update via email. I know this is not a perfect solution but…
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