email RFC's?

[Brett I. Holcomb]

The only experiences I've had at one company I worked at was that the mail 
admin set a max size for the mail that could be stored on the server.  This 
was an MS Exchange server.  If you exceded that you got a message and 
couldn't save anything else.  If it got too bad the admin deleted big 
pieces of mail.

Andrew Mathews wrote:

> I've been searching for a reference to any specifications concerning
> maximum message sizes for email. I've googled a fair amount but not
> found anything specific other than RFC 1870 which doesn't give a
> commonly accepted maximum size, just a 64k minimum capability. I'm
> trying to provide some valid documentation to support my argument that a
> mail server is NOT an server for large attachments, that's what we have
> an ftp server for. Is there a standard for the maximum or is it simply
> set by the individual isp? (we had a 10M limit and people are howling
> since it's been reduced to 2M)

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