If you are at a business how big can your email attachments be?

My company restricts emails to 4 mb in size? Is that normal? How big can your corporate email attachments be?
If you are at a business how big can your email attachments be?
Email attachments can theoretically be unlimited in size.





However, it is not practical to support unlimited sizes. Based upon my experience working for a corporate email service provider, 10-20 MB is a common limit for attachment sizes which are being sent externally.





You might want to use a free/low cost hosting site to upload a file securely and send the link to someone so they can download the file securely. I have used Xdrive (http://www.xdrive.com/)





Others are at this link below:


http://www.freewebspace.net/guide/diskst...








Here's background on why business restrict attachment size.


The two most popular corporate email systems, Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes, have settings which allow the administrator to restrict the size of the attachment. The reason is that large attachments consume bandwidth and can hold up an incoming or outgoing mail queue. For instance, if you tried to send a 100 MB attachment, and you only have one outbound mail queue, then you could imagine that all of the other people who use your email system and who send messages after you would be behind you in the queue. The would have to wait until your 100MB file was sent in order for their mail to be sent.
Reply:Disagree. That is only on a windoze server. Nix servers using more commonly used email servers like sendmail will piece packets together on the fly. So your tiny 2k msg goes out no problem and same with the 2k email coming same time as the 100 mb Report Abuse

Reply:if your co. has really tight security, attachments prob. aren't allowed. this is #1 virus vector. check w your IT on file transferes instead,
Reply:Can't be very big. Might be 10-15 KB
Reply:Depends on what email system they are using. Most Exchange servers restrict to 5-10 megs. Most Unix/Linux based servers the only restriction is your dir size on the server or a disk space throttle which means you often get 20-100 megs to contain your email. As long as your attachment is not bigger than your free space.





I worked at one company where I eventually accumulated a gig of stored mail before I finally had to do some archiving and house cleaning. Technically I could have had a 1 gig attachment.
Reply:i restrict my staff from sending attachments bigger than 10mb, but u can compress urs when saving it and make it conform to what management demands...good luck
Reply:If the Email Servers are on the corporate network this is entirely up to Email Server Admins