[PLUG] Web file transfer site recommendations

David Duncan dduncan at hexi.com
Fri Jul 24 16:51:22 UTC 2009


For free storage less than 100 MB you might try drop.io

On Friday, July 24, 2009, John Medway <pdxlinux at johnmedway.com> wrote:
> With Google you'll be able to send 25 MB attachments anyone who hasn't WAY
> overbought/provisioned their email server (like Google has) will reject.
>
> I understand the desire to move large amounts of data around, but email is
> NOT the way to do it. Think of the literal bandwidth required for
> transmit/receive + CPU for virus/spam scanning (attachment goes through
> Amavis, ClamAV, Amavis, SpamAssassin, Postfix, and then if local Dovecot) x
> N users. And this may occur on more than the final recipient host,
> depending on server/farm config.
>
> There are good rea$on$ server admins and IT Departments don't allow large
> attachments, unless they had money to burn when provisioning their email
> system.
>
>
>
>
> At 11:00 PM 7/23/2009, Bill Barry wrote:
>
>>I second the gmail suggestion. You get an smtp server you can use from
>>anywhere and you can use 25MB attachments
>>
>>Bill
>
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