Hey Darren et al, > IMHO you're trying to find a technical solution to a bigger problem.
He could ask the boss for 'more' hardware. Most problems tend to go away when thrown adequate amounts of money at them, and timeouts because of scanning and filtering is probably one of those types of problems. > Organizations commonly limit the size to 10 > MB or under; anything larger you can find an alternate (more suitable) > method for file transfer (SFTP, or FTP if not sensitive come to mind.) I've had the same stance on this issue as you do and basically I think you're dead right. In day to day business, I've found that most people have no clue how to transfer files from one place to the other, other than through mail. Telling them to zip it, split it or whatever tends to put a haze into their eyes and take their business somewhere else. Noone knows what FTP is anymore. I've recently received some stuff via http://www.send2deliver.com/ (I think it is only available in Dutch, not sure), but I know nothing of the people behind it or their privacy policy, if any. > If you're pounded by spam, consider implementing spamd in front of > your mta (externally) to cut down on the volume that your content > filters have to process. I've seen almost no spam and no viruses come through our mail once I implemented spamd. It *is* the next best thing since sliced bread and it doesn't care about 50Mb large messages. The only complaints (about 5 in the last 3 years) I get is that it sometimes takes 1 to 1,5 hours for messages to arrive. But I haven't received a single complaint on spam. Just sighs of relief. ;-) The boss might not like the initial delay on mailservers. Hence my mentioning money first. Bye... Nico
