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

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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 : ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 (...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Extracting and saving attachments from maildir, deduplicated

I would like to know if there exists a solution for archiving email, stripping out the attachments and saving them separately, deduplicated? The ideal would be a maildir-setup, with a script running ...
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Save attachment from IMAP on networkdrive

I'm looking for a solution to save automatically attachments of an e-mail for a specific mailbox on an network drive. Mails are stored on cyrus imap server. Does anyone know a script or something ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Why do I have problems downloading some iPhone attachments from Exchange?

Lately I have been getting an increasing number of complaints regarding users not being able to download attachments synced from Exchange with their iPhone. The iPhones in question are either 3G or ...
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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 ...
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Issues with Forefront for Exchange file filter

I have an issue where I want to strip some image attachments from emails. Using Forefront for Exchange I can create a file filter rule based on attachment name, type, and size. This initially seemed ...
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Automated extraction of email attachment on Exchange Server

An Exchange email account was created through which I will receive daily emails with three different Excel attachments. Each Excel attachment has to be saved in one of three different folders. Can ...
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Postfix block double extensions in archive attachment

These days I have problems with trojans in attachments like: //EZuS.zip//invoice_scan_xcFSuO.xls.js contains a potentially infected object HEUR:Trojan-Downloader.Script.Generic. //TuxX.zip//...
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Considering MIME Expansion bloat, how does that affect settings for Exchange 2003/2007/2010 message size limits?

Since the mime encoding can increase a message's size by 33%, what is the correct math I need to do to filter messages larger than 45Mb? Is the math needed at all? Does the math change among ...
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Exchange 2003 purge old attachments from mailboxes

i have to save space in my server and i thought to purge the old attachments of email, is it possibile with exchange 2003? Thank you
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Opinion question about security viruses and HTML attachments

In the last couple of weeks my company has been inundated by a group of viruses including an .html attachment. Some of these were subjected UPS shipment, some Western Union. All of them asking the ...
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Is it possible to modify a single email account's maximum attachment size in cPanel? [closed]

In cPanel, how can I adjust the maximum attachment size for a users email account?
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Exchange 2010: Issues increasing maximum email size (smtp;550 5.3.4 SMTPSEND.OverAdvertisedSize)

I have a recently-deployed 1 server windows domain running Windows 2008 R2 Standard SP1 and Exchange 2010 SP3, running on the 2003 R2 domain and forest level. The server receives email through a main ...
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How can I send emails from the command line with recipient tab-completion and proper file attachment?

A year ago I tried a couple of different email senders because I wanted to simplify sending emails from the command line. There are a couple of tools for it, I tried (I don't remember exactly): ...
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Why does Exchange 2003 silently reject emails with large attachments?

Our environment: Exchange Server 2003 Standard, single instance, running on Windows Server 2003 Standard. configured to not send/receive mail with attachments larger than 10 MB. NDRs are not enabled....
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List attachment count per user in Exchange online (O365)

Is there any way to list attachment usage in outgoing emails of all users? I would like to run a campaign at our company to make users aware of better options than using an attachment, and having the ...
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Email attachments sent to a group don't show up for some

My boss sent out an email from my Exchange 2010 org and attached a PDF and a Word doc to it. He came back the next day and told me that some of the 8 or 10 people that received this email could open ...
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Is showing E-Mail Inline Attachments in Exchange/Outlook a bad practice?

We are currently in the situation that we receive some E-Mails from our business partners containing inline attachments of the file types .doc(x) and .pdf with our Exchange Server. Outlook does not ...
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Sending email from a script including attachments

I want to email a html file and some images to someone from a script. The standard answer seems to be to use mutt. However I don't have that installed at the moment. Is there another way I could do ...
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Perl sendmail attach log files match date format

I want to send log files matching date format, e.g. YYYY-MM-DD-*.log as attachments in Perl script. In BASH, this can be easily done by: [ -f $DIR/explog/$(date "+%Y-%m-%d")-*-host1.log ] && ...
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Filtering attachment types in Google Apps (free Google Business)

We have Google apps in our company for mail delivery, our business can't pay the business version yet, however, we need to control the attachment types that employees download. We recently switched ...
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SharePoint 2007 incoming mail with multiple attachments only partially successful

I am using the incoming mail feature of SharePoint 2007 to catch mail from the drop folder and add it to a configured list. We have multiple systems that send automated reports to SharePoint every ...
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Roundcube restricts attachment below declared limit

I have mail server with spec: Centos 7 Roundcube 1.3.5 MTA Postfix 2.10.1 I have limited the attachment upload size to 5M in: /etc/php.ini => post_max_size = 10M , upload_max_filesize = 5M ...
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Outlook Meeting Requests Not Being Re-encoded from Base 64 by Receiving Clients

Exchange 2010 + Outlook 2007. Users send outlook meeting request to a list of recipients both interanlly and externally to the organisation. Some recipients report receiving 'garbled' messages instead ...
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Outlook 2007 off of Exchange 2003. Paperclip shows but no attachment on message

I have 2 users that occasionally receive emails with a pdf attachment that is not actually on the email. The paperclip will show in outlook but there is actually nothing attached. Accessing via owa ...
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Programatically Determine Exchange Attachment Limit

Is there any way to query the exchange server to determine the maximum attachment file size? I'd be doing this in ASP.NET/C#. I'd like to be able to validate the file they want to attach is not over ...
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Outlook 2007 + Exchange 2010 (Save All Attachments)

About 3 weeks back our company upgraded our mail system to Exchange 2010, all went smooth, few issues but nothing major. A few days ago we had a call from a college where he was unable to save all ...
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Mobile devices unable to send mail due to servers sending quota being exceeded

I have a customer who has their own exchange. Their mobile devices are struggling to send emails with attachments and keep reporting that "your email server's sending quota has been exceeded". I've ...
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Forward all ZIP attachments to a single central address

Lately my server has been getting pounded with spam containing ZIP attachments (presumably infected with something). They go to most of our users, and the fear is someone will open one. Users are ...
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Cant send large attachments from iOS using Exchange 2013 [duplicate]

Some of my users are having issues sending emails with attachments from iOS devices but the same works fein from desktop versions. There seems to be a link to the size of the attachment, as an example ...
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Outlook/Exchange allows some users to open a jar attachment

Using Windows SBS 2003 and Outlook 2007. We just received an email virus in a jar file. For most users Outlook blocked the attachment as per usual, but unfortunately on one users computer this didn't ...
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How to add filter for Gmail (business version) attachment file types

I need to block certain file types from the attachment inside the company, this is part of the company policy. Can this be done with gmail free services? using a firewall some how?
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Exchange 2019 refusing attachments within permitted size

I have external users (different mail host) trying to send messages to internal users on our Exchange 2019 server. The attachments are large (7MB-10MB before Base64 encoding), and the senders are ...
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Configure Outlook not to hide attachments

How do you configure Outlook to display all (incl. unsafe) mail attachments?
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Email appears to be sent, but never arrived (probably because of attachment size). Shouldn’t there be an error message? [closed]

A friend tried to send me an email containing a big attachment (> 30 MB). According to his email client, the email was sent successfully (it moved from Outbox to Sent folder). I never received this ...
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Mutt send email with attachment to personal and corporate email address

[Mutt | CentOS 5.1] I have set up Mutt on CentOS and configured /etc/Muttrc and ~/.muttrc files. I can send email out without attachments, command: echo $Message | mutt -s "WARNING $Subject" sample@...
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Sending cron output as a text file attachment

I sysadmin a multiplayer game at CentOS 6.5 Linux server for a customer. The customer has requested me to send the daily chat logs (to identify and ban agressive players) - as a text file attachement....
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