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Email Attachment Size Issues

I have a client who has a need to send 50 meg files by email and have a huge message store for some users. This is a law firm who sends attachments back and forth and wants to track revisions. They will keep the attachments in exchange rather than delete them once they are downloaded so they can track revisions. They are not flexible.

Currently they are using SBS 2003 which wont cut it. I am thinking that even SBS 2011 wont really let them do what they want. I need some suggestions on what to do next that I can present to them. One thought is an exchange hosted account which has large or no limits. The other is to have our own exchange server. (I have no idea what having your own exchange server looks like or costs. I have only done SBS. Perhaps there is another way that I am over looking?

For whatever it is worth they insist on doing it through Outlook and Exchange. Any thoughts and suggestions would be appreciated.

Chuck

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William Fulks

Don't you love when non-IT people tell IT people exactly how things are supposed to work? I agree that a Sharepoint system would be so much better. Their insisting on using Outlook and Exchange beyond the capacity it was designed for is setting themselves up for a major fail. Be ready to run ScanPST quite often.

One possible suggestion would be to teach them how to compress the files. If it's just documents then you might be able to reduce the file size if they put them in a .ZIP or some other format.

chuckkotler

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Actually the 50 MB is external. Documents go back and forth by email, with edits.

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R--R

What about FTP server.

chuckkotler

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I am feeling like I am missing something. One attorney used to work at another firm and she says she never had a bounced message becasue of size and her email store was over 10 Gigs. She emails sometimes 30 different attorneys in the same matter the same attachement. FTP wont work as described.
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chuckkotler

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I tend to ignore it too. In this case the user is telling management that it worked perfectly at her old place. Management is drinking her cool aid. I am caught in the middle. I referenced the mailbox size becuase she has a crazy amount of data. She tried to import it into our message store and crashed it.

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